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Illinois Heritage Volume 11 Number 2
March - April 2008

Feature Articles:

bulletAbraham Lincoln in Macon County: Part I, "Bookends" (page 7)
bulletDrive-by history: Finding Illinois historical markers on the road and on the web (page 11)
bullet2008 Illinois History Symposium Schedule (page 17)
bullet"Fountains of sympathy run dry": The sad history of wolf killing in McLean County" (page 25)
bulletSculpting Lincoln, part 9 (page 30)

Departments:

bulletTo our readers (page 2)
bulletPresident's message (page 3)
bulletLetters (page 4)
bulletNews (page 5)
bulletThe honor roll (page 39)

Reviews:

bulletCaptured history: Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (page 32)

On the Cover:

Sunlight dances on the swollen Sangamon River at Lincoln Homestead Trail State Park, located ten miles west of Decatur. Near this site in March 1830, the Lincoln family first settled in Illinois.

                Photograph by William Furry

Illinois State Historical Society * P.O. Box 1800, Springfield, IL 62705-1800 * 217-525-2781*Webmaster: Terri Cameron tcameron@historyillinois.org