Looking for Lincoln in Illinois

Collecting fifty Abraham Lincoln sto­ries—some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected—Looking for Lin­coln in Illinois: Lincoln’s Springfield is a carefully research, richly illustrated guide to the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail. Created by the Lincoln Heritage Coalition, this trail consists of 215 il­lustrated story boards in sites of sig­nificance to Lincoln’s life and career across fifty-two communities. Looking for Lincoln celebrates the trail as a rich historical resource, reproducing each of the existing storyboards and including twelve additional storyboards.

The storyboards of the Lincoln Story Trail connect Lincoln-related tales to the geographical locations in which they occurred in Lincoln’s hometown, giving readers a tour of the social and cultural landscape of Lincoln’s nineteenth-century world while revealing the very human Lincoln known by friends and associ­ates. Through texts, historic photographs and images, and a map keyed to the fifty story locations in downtown Springfield, readers of this unprecedented volume are invited to imagine social and cultural landscapes that have been lost in time.