The artist chose to depict the iconic 16th President as he was as a young lawyer working in small towns around Illinois.

The 50-foot-tall mural of President Abraham Lincoln that graces ... the courtyard behind the Peoria County Courthouse since 2018, a spot where Lincoln once gave a speech on the ills of slavery ...

In this careful, balanced look at Abraham Lincoln's stirring 1854 Peoria, Ill., speech, writer and historian Lehrman finds a ""prelude to greatness"" that put the little-known lawyer and ...

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

Abraham Lincoln Joseph Cunningham Steve Beckett ... Henry Whitney said it was the Peoria speech. When Lincoln was soliciting support for his U.S. Senate candidacy, on Dec. 15, 1854, he sent ...