For information on special events, check the community calendar compiled by the
Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County.

• Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County

• Logan County communities:

• Atlanta

• Elkhart

• Lincoln

• Mount Pulaski:

  • City government

  • Mount Pulaski Township

• Looking for Lincoln:

• Central Illinois

• Lincoln

• Mount Pulaski

• State historic sites:

  • Mount Pulaski Courthouse

  • Postville Courthouse

• Museums:

  • Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

  • Heritage In Flight Museum

  • J.H. Hawes Grain Elevator and Museum

  • Lincoln Heritage Museum

• Local attractions and sites

• Logan County historical landmarks

• Old Gillett Farm

• Sites to see

• 'Walking on the Path of Abraham Lincoln' -- A walking tour of historic Lincoln, Ill.

Annual events:

• Logan County Fair

• Illinois State Fair
  Aug. 8-18, 2013

• Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival
  Aug. 23-25, 2013

• Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Festival
  Sept. 20-22, 2013

• Past fairs and festivals

Other tourism and historical links:

• Central Illinois tourism

• Enjoy Illinois

• Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

• Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society

• Maps

• Mr. Lincoln, Route 66, and Other Highlights of Lincoln, Illinois
  (Site created by D. Leigh Henson)

• Parks

• Route 66:

• Illinois Route 66

• Historic Route 66 -- Illinois

• Route 66 -- Atlanta

• Recreation

• Transportation

Recent articles

• Illinois and the Korean War, January 1953

• Reminder: Watch Night/First Day celebrates 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Next month at Lincoln Presidential Museum: 3 authors, 3 different takes on history

• The year in Illinois history

• Lincoln envelope Down Under digitally reunited with letter in Illinois

• Local artist John Sutton presents President Lincoln with a gift

• A soldier's World War II Christmas story

• Congressman-turned-soldier is 'General of the Month' at Old State Capitol

• Grant supports effort to digitize Abraham Lincoln's favorite newspaper

• New Year's events in Springfield to mark 150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation

• Jay Leno headliners include local tourism bureau officials

• Lincoln Presidential Museum explores disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg to mark Civil War Sesquicentennial

• Atlanta Betterment Fund board introduces 'Rt. 66 Reinterpreted' Art Project

• Presidential museum launching exhibit on Benito Juarez, the 'Mexican Lincoln'

• African-American Civil War heroes to be portrayed at presidential library

• Abraham Lincoln and the dilemma of alcohol
  Guy Fraker, author of 'Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency,' to discuss Lincoln's views Thursday at presidential museum

• Illinois and the Korean War, December 1952

• New 1-woman show 'Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree' to premiere during First Night Springfield

• An evening of food and song at Vachel Lindsay Home

• 25th annual Vietnam Veterans Memorial Christmas Remembrance Saturday

• 'Where history meets technology': New website brings Abraham Lincoln to the world, digitally

• 'Artist in Residence' program at Vachel Lindsay Home features Hugh Moore's paintings and music

• Presidential library obtains documents shedding new light on Mary Lincoln’s financial worries

• Details: Mary Lincoln's 'widow's fund' letters donated to presidential library & museum

• State signs agreement for Purple Heart Memorial

• Website highlights 'slave stealing' Illinois regiment

• Vachel Lindsay home celebrates author and artist's 133rd birthday