Topic: Illinois

An overview of famous people from Illinois

Helium - 458 days ago
Illinois citizens made important contributions in the areas of science and manufacturing as well. J. L. Kraft opened a cheese factory in Stockton, Illinois. Ronald Reagan appears to be the only native Illinois resident who is famous in both the entertainment and ...

Mary Todd Lincoln

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 916 days ago
Mary was given an excellent education for a young woman of her time, and she later boasted about how well she had learned French. After her mother died in 1825, her father remarried, and Mary, who despised her stepmother, spent more time ...

The Local Politics of Lincoln

Suite 101 - 1382 days ago
Surely, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the most written-about President of the nineteenth century. His family moved to Indiana in 1816, and finally to New Salem, Illinois, which would be the scene of Lincoln's greatest triumphs, in 1830, when the young man was ...