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Illinois Heritage Volume
11 Number 4
July - August 2008
Feature Articles:
 | Lincoln in Sculpture, Part 11 (page 8) |
| First-class art: Documenting Depression-era art in
Illinois post offices (page 11) |
| Bench marker: Illinois Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Hubbel Treat gets a tombstone, 197 years after his death
(page 13) |
| Heritage harvest: A visit to DuPage County's Kline
Creek Farm (page 14) |
| The "Goddess" of mercy: How Minnie Vautrin saved
10,000 lives during the Rape of Nanking (page 19) |
| Lincoln in Macon County, Part 3: "The Rail Splitter"
(page 27) |
Departments:
| To our readers (page 2) |
| President's message (page 3) |
| Letters (page 4) |
| News (page 5) |
| The honor roll (page 39) |
| From the archives: Lorraine, Adams County (page 40) |
Reviews:
| Captured history: Chicago Under Glass: Early
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (page 32) |
On the Cover:
Portrait of Minnie Vautrin, the American educator and
missionary who witnessed the 1937 Rape of Nanking and earned
the title "Goddess of Mercy" from the more than 10,000 women
whose lives she saved. Vautrin was born in Secor, Illinois,
a small town between Bloomington and Peoria.
Photo courtesy the Disciples of Christ Historical Society
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