**CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER** 

The Sangamon County Historical Society will host its popular cemetery walking tour,  “Echoes of Yesteryear: A Walk through Oak Ridge Cemetery” from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, October 3 at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield.

A Day in the One Room Schoolhouse
Tinley Park Historical Society
6727 174th Street
Tinley Park, Illinois
 

Civil War Symposium III

Sponsored by the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County and the Tri-States Civil War Round Table.

Just how many layers did 1860s women wear to achieve that bell-shaped silhouette? Join Illinois State Museum’s Curator of History Erika Holst to find out!

The University of Illinois at Springfield’s Center for Lincoln Studies invites K-12 social studies educators to the first annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture workshop, focusing on Lincoln, Antislavery, and Antiracism.

The Center for Lincoln Studies at UIS invites the public to attend the film premiere of "Lincoln & Douglas: Touring Illinois in Tumultuous Times," a 47-minute documentary road film about the Lincoln-Douglas debates co-directed by UIS Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies, Dr. Graham Peck. After the program, there will be a presentation of "Lincoln and the Lakota" by Lincoln re-enactor Randy Duncan.

The Center for Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield invites the public to attend the 2021 Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series discussion on “Lincoln and Anti-Racism” with professors David Reynolds and James Oakes.

The 29th Annual Leclaire Parkfest will take place Sunday, October 17 from Noon to 5 p.m. at Leclaire Park on Hale Avenue in Edwardsville, IL.

Official Macon County Historian Mark Sorensen will discuss President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great Loop Tour” of Western states by rail leaving Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1903 and returning June 5, 1903. The tour officially started and ended in Illinois where the president made 16 official stops, including Chicago, Evanston, Freeport, Lincoln and Danville.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Catherine Clinton, author of such notable works as the award-winning Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom and Mrs. Lincoln: A Life, which at publication was the first new biography of Mary Lincoln in over 20 years.