Another state capital: Springfield, IL
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| Illinois State Library (1985-1990, by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White) with names of Illinois authors inscribed under the top windows (KSS) |
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| Illinois State Capitol (1868-1888, by Alfred Piquenard in French Renaissance and Italianate styles) |
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| The Coal Miner (1964, by John Szaton) |
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| Statue (1918, by Andrew O'Connor) of Abraham Lincoln in front of the Capitol |
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| Statue (1923, by Leonard Crunelle) of John M Palmer, a Civil War general, governor of Kentucky, then of Illinois in 1868, as well as US Senator |
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| Statue (1921, by Albin Polasek) of Richard Yates who was an Illinois governor and US Senator |
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| Statue (1975, by Carl Topo) of Everett McKinley Dirksen, the popular Republican Congressman and Senator; the elephant, donkey, and oil can at his feet represent his ability to foster cooperation between the political parties |
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| Statue (1988, by Geraldine McCullough) of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, the only non-Illinoisan honored with a statue in the capitol complex |
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| Illinois Workers Memorial (1992, by Peter Fagan) dedicated to Illinois workers killed or injured on the job |
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| 1840s Greek Revival home was owned by Abraham Lincoln's sister-in-law and husband, who often entertained the Lincolns here; the parents of Vachel Lindsay purchased the house and added ten rooms in Eastlake style and it is where Vachel Lindsay, poet and artist, lived his entire life |
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| Governor's Mansion (1855, by John M Van Osdel in Italianate style) is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States |
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| Former Great Western Railroad Springfield Station aka Lincoln Depot, as this was where Lincoln gave a farewell speech in 1861 to his fellow Springfield citizens from the rear platform of the train he was taking to assume the presidency |
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| A purposely left-unfinished mural (started 2013, by Michael Mayosky, who is in dispute with the building owner) |
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| Acts of Intolerance (2009, by Preston Jackson) depicts two charred chimneys covered with images from the Springfield Race Riot of 1908, an event that sparked the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/NAACP |
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| The second "chimney," each have images on both sides (KSS) |
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| Former Springfield Union Station (1897-1898, by Francis T Bacon in Richardsonian Romanesque style) (KSS) |
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| A Greater Task (2004, by John McClarey) depicts Lincoln giving his Farewell Address at the "Lincoln" Depot, where he stated, "I now leave... with a task before me greater Than that which rested upon Washington." |
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| Old State Capitol (1837-1840, by John Francis Rague in Greek Revival style as the fifth capitol building); Lincoln and other Illinois lawmakers led the effort to bring the state capital to Springfield and it was here in the House Chamber that he made his "House Divided" speech; this is also the site pf presidential candidacy announcements by Lincoln in 1858 and Barack Obama in 2007 |
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| Crosswalk in Springfield, IL |
~Guess, what? On 10/16/2006, Ada & Bert S visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, OH.~
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| Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (2004) is a research library and also houses the Illinois State Historical Library |
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| Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum (2005) is quite a departure from the typical museum, being more like a theme entertainment park; I won't complain about getting free admission upon presenting proof of vaccination |
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| We are greeted by the whole Lincoln family in front of the White House |
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| But first a visit to Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana |
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| Abe Lincoln reading by firelight |
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| Abe working in his first business venture, the Berry-Lincoln store in New Salem, IL |
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| Abe Lincoln with Mary Todd Lincoln in their Springfield Home |
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| Stephen Douglas and Lincoln debate in a race for the US Senate |
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| It was thought that Lincoln was too absorbed in his work to notice the behavior of his youngest sons |
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| We return to the White House with other visitors including Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass |
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| We had already met Elizabeth Keckley at the Griot Museum in St Louis, MO; she was a slave who bought her own freedom through her sewing skills and later became dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln |
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| A roomful of extremely vicious caricatures and political cartoons attacking both Abraham and Mary Lincoln; yet I was fascinated by the not-rectangular picture framed |
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| During a lavish White House party, the Lincolns were called to son Willie's bedside as his fever had taken a turn for the worst, and he was to die two weeks later |
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| Lincoln's War Office depicting reactions of his Cabinet to a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| A copy of a printed edition of the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Mary and Abraham Lincoln in their box at Ford's Theatre |
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| Lincoln lying in state at the Old State Capitol |
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