Historic Sites in Illinois

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization designated Cahokia Mounds a World H...

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Lincoln Home National Historic Site is part of the National Park System, one of more than 390 parks that are importan...

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In 1870, the Lighthouse Board recommended that the cast-iron lighthouse, in use since 1859 on the North ...

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Many consider the Jansonist emigration as the beginning of Swedish America. A number of historically sign...

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Everyone acquainted with the Village of New Salem realizes it is more than a collection of log homes and ...

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Abraham Lincoln and his family made Macon County their first home in Illinois after arriving from Indiana...

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This site marks the location of the last of three successive forts named “de Chartres” built by the F...

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Today, Lincoln Log Cabin is an 86-acre historic site that is owned and operated by the Illinois Historic ...

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When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, o...

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Midway Village Museum was organized in 1968 by the Swedish, Harlem and Rockford Historical Societies for the pu...

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Founded in 1703, the town was for more than a century the region"s principal commercial center, also serv...

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The Kenilworth Historical Society was founded in 1922 to preserve and present the history of this early p...

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The Atlanta public library was founded in 1873 by public spirited citizens who realized the importance of books. In 1...

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Here, in 1899, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started what became the most influential social settlement in Americ...

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It is a Chicagoan's duty to know about Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect whose Prairie style has inspir...

Cahokia Mounds