Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois Capital Development Board announced $8 million for improvements to Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — A bipartisan group of Illinois lawmakers are working to preserve a place of Abraham Lincoln’s history in Central Illinois, including giving the site $5 million in funding.

The works of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Vachel Lindsay — known collectively as the Sangamon River poets — will come ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — As state lawmakers work in the Capitol this spring, buildings and bridges at the historic Lincoln's New Salem site continue to fall apart. WAND News took a trip to New Salem ...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says it’s going to take $19 million to restore Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site in Petersburg. State Sen. Steve McClure’s ...

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham Lincoln spent his 20s working odd jobs, studying law and winning his first ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central ...