ILLINOIS BICENTENNIAL: Sen Alan Dixon (D) on his Career in...
From June, 2012: The Illinois Channel sat down with former US Senator Alan Dixon (D), whose political career spanned 42 years. We met in...
17 Year-Old Author and Entrepreneur, Houston Gunn on Setting Goals for...
Houston Gunn, author of Schooled for Success, talks about how he, a failed English student, became motivated to right his first book as a...
Jim and Brenda Edgar Discuss their Lives in the Public Arena
Former Gov Jim Edgar and First Lady Brenda Edgar discuss their lives, career and the impact of living in the public eye on their...
Sen Dick Durbin’s Address on Lincoln’s Leadership
Delivered on Lincoln's 203rd birthday, before the Abraham Lincoln Association annual dinner, Sen Dick Durbin talks of the many memorials of Lincoln in the...
Skokie, Illinois’ Holocaust Museum Wins National Award for Service and Education
by Jacob Rogers, Medill News Servie
WASHINGTON- The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center was honored this week as one of ten institutions to receive a...
From the Archives: Our 2011 Visit to the Governor’s Mansion...
From our Archives: In December, 2011, we visited the Governor's mansion to see how it was decorated by staff and volunteers. The Illinois Governor's...
Lincoln Assassination Artifacts
As we approach the 150th Anniversary of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, who was shot in Ford's Theater in Washington on April 14th, 1865,...
Brooks Simpson: Ulysses S Grant’s Triumph Over Adversity
From Springfield: We go one on one with Brooks Simpson, author of "Ulysses S Grant, Triumph Over Adversity: 1822-1865" the first volume of a...
Illinois Bicentennial: 1818 – 2018, Chatham Rail Depo & Museum
CHATHAM, IL - High School Student, Jeremie Bailey, offers the story of the Chatham Depot and Railroad Museum. Chatham is a bedroom community of...
Dan and Floyd Abrams on Lincoln, Media, and the Law
Springfield, February 12, 2019 -- Chosen as the keynote speaker to address the Abraham Lincoln Association annual dinner, Dan Abrams, the ABC...
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From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...