Illinois

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The tragedy of Black Hawk, who became the eponym of a war he tried to avoid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From Poverty and Persecution to Prosperity and Power</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">You probably haven’t seen it, but it’s out by the tracks of the Chicago &amp; North Western.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Clues uncovered during the recent restoration of his house at Springfield help humanize the Lincoln portrait.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">At the dawn of this century, a new form of residential architecture rose from the American heartland, ruled by the total integration of space, site, and structure.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A newly discovered document almost certainly written by the young Abraham Lincoln shows him dismantling a shifty political rival with ruthless wit and logic.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Her son had her committed. She said it was so he could get his hands on her money. Now, 130 years after this bitter and controversial drama, a trove of letters—long believed destroyed—sheds new light on it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A new picture of prairie lawyers coping with bad roads and worse inns on the Illinois frontier, drawn from David Davis’ letters</span> </span></p>

<p>Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight.</p>

<p>Now a popular state park, the unassuming geological feature along the Illinois River has served as the site of centuries of human habitation and discovery.  </p>