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Please join us for the first ever virtual and FREE Conference on Illinois History! This year's conference will offer over 20 sessions and teacher workshops. Two plenary sessions will feature Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Director of the Illinois State Museum and Dr. Kristin Hoganson, the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Conference on Illinois History is accepting paper or panel proposals on any aspect of Illinois’s history, culture, politics, geography, or archaeology. We encourage submissions from professional and avocational historians, students, and those engaged in the study of Illinois history at libraries, historic sites, museums, and historical societies.