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Illinois Heritage Volume 10 Number 1
January - February 2007

Feature Articles:

bulletLincoln's Bloomington: Outside of Springfield, no community had a greater influence over the life of the prairie lawyer, by Guy Fraker (page 5)
bulletSculpting Lincoln: Paths of conviction, footsteps of fate, by Carl Volkmann (page 11)
bulletSculpting Lincoln: Lincoln the lawyer, by Carl Volkmann (page 12)
bullet2007 Illinois History Symposium schedule (page 13)
bulletThe 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)
bulletThe county atlas: The high point in American cartography, by William D. Walters, Jr. (page 25)

Reviews:

bulletPortuguese on the prairie, reviewed by Stuart Fliege (page 29)
bulletBloody valentine, reviewed by Christopher J. Young (page 30)

Departments:

bulletLetters
bulletNews
bulletMembership 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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