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, ...

Construction is set to begin on the Peoria County Courthouse's plaza, bringing a new look with a water structure, LED lights, ...

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner in East Peoria, Illinois, emphasizing the ...

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 ...

Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16 ... as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.” —Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858 44. “If a man will stand up ...

Although he wasn’t a Founding Father, Abraham Lincoln is arguably one of the country’s most ... It is considered to be one of the most monumental speeches in American history. While it may seem ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... as he demonstrated in his antislavery Peoria speech of 1854 and in the 1860 Cooper Union address, which effectively secured for him the ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History ... “This is one of the top four speeches that elevated Lincoln to the presidency, that being the Peoria speech of 1854, ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known as the Gettysburg Address. The brief speech—just 272 words arranged ...