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Illinois Heritage
Volume 10 Number 1
January - February 2007
Feature Articles:
 | Lincoln's Bloomington: Outside of Springfield, no
community had a greater influence over the life of the
prairie lawyer, by Guy Fraker (page 5) |
| Sculpting Lincoln: Paths of conviction, footsteps of
fate, by Carl Volkmann (page 11) |
| Sculpting Lincoln: Lincoln the lawyer, by Carl
Volkmann (page 12) |
| 2007 Illinois History Symposium schedule (page 13) |
| The Klan comes to Lexington: In the 1920's, the KKK
looked to solid citizens and the clergy to promote "moral"
values, by Terri Clemens (page 21) |
| The county atlas: The high point in American
cartography, by William D. Walters, Jr. (page 25) |
Reviews:
| Portuguese on the prairie, reviewed by Stuart Fliege
(page 29) |
| Bloody valentine, reviewed by Christopher J. Young
(page 30) |
Departments:
| Letters |
| News |
| Membership report |
On the Cover:
"The McLean County Courthouse, circa 1855."
Lincoln practiced law in this two-story Federal Style
building on the southeast corner of the Courthouse Lawn in
Bloomington. It was torn down in 1868.
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