Lincoln, Illinois Lincoln Logan County Courthouse in Lincoln Location of Lincoln inside Illinois Location of Lincoln inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Lincoln, Illinois Lincoln is a town/city in Logan County, Illinois, United States.
It is the only town in the United States that was titled for and by Abraham Lincoln before he became president; he practiced law there from 1847 to 1859.
First settled in the 1830s, Lincoln is home to three universities and two prisons.
The three universities are Lincoln College, Lincoln Christian University, and Heartland Community College.
Abraham Lincoln, having assisted with the platting of the town and working as counsel for the newly laid barns which led to its founding, was asked to participate in a naming ceremony for the town.
According to tradition Lincoln was present.
There he invited Latham, Hickox, and Gillette, proprietors, to join him, saying, "Now we'll christen the new town.", squeezing watermelon juice out on the ground. Legend has it that when it had been proposed to him that the town be titled for him, he had advised against it, saying that in his experience, "Nothing bearing the name of Lincoln ever amounted to much." The town of Lincoln was the first town/city named after Abraham Lincoln, while he was a lawyer and before he was President of the United States. Lincoln College (chartered Lincoln University), a private four-year liberal arts college, was established in early 1865 and granted 2 year degrees until 1929.
News of the establishment and name of the school was communicated to President Lincoln shortly before his death making Lincoln the only college to be titled after Lincoln while he was living.
The College has an excellent compilation of Abraham Lincoln related documents and artifacts, homed in a exhibition which is open to the general public.
The City of Lincoln was positioned directly on U.S.
This is its secondary tourist infamous after the connection with Abraham Lincoln.
American author Langston Hughes spent some of his early years in Lincoln. Later on, he was to write to his eighth-grade teacher in Lincoln, telling her his writing longterm position began there in the eighth grade, when he was propel class poet.
American theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and Helmut Richard Niebuhr lived in Lincoln from 1902 through their college years.
Reinhold Niebuhr first served as pastor of a church when he served as interim minister of Lincoln's St.
The City of Lincoln features the stone, three-story, domed Logan County Courthouse (1905).
This courthouse building replaced the earlier Logan County Courthouse (built 1858) where Lincoln once practiced law; the earlier building had declined into serious decay and could not be saved.
In addition, the Postville Courthouse State Historic Site contains a 1953 replica of the initial 1840 Logan County courthouse; Postville, the initial county seat, lost its status in 1848 and was itself took in into Lincoln in the 1860s. Lincoln was also the site of the Lincoln Developmental Center (LDC); a state institution for the developmentally disabled.
Lincoln is positioned on I-55 (formerly U.S.
In addition Illinois Route 10 and Illinois Route 121 run into the town/city and Illinois Route 121 now ends in Lincoln; former Route 121 north of the town/city is now Interstate 155.
According to the 2010 census, Lincoln has a total region of 6.4 square miles (16.58 km2), all land. Lincoln's Amtrak train station is on the Amtrak line between St.
Kickapoo Street in Lincoln According to the 2010 United States Census, Lincoln had 14,504 citizens .
The town's populace is spread out with 21.6% under the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The United States Postal Service operates the Lincoln Post Office. The Illinois Department of Corrections Logan Correctional Center is positioned in unincorporated Logan County, near Lincoln. Lincoln Christian University Lincoln College, Illinois Lincoln Community High School William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., author; his 1979 novel So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Lincoln "Lincoln College Museum - Lincoln, Illinois".
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Municipalities and communities of Logan County, Illinois, United States County seat: Lincoln Atlanta Lincoln Mount Pulaski Aetna Atlanta Broadwell Chester Corwin East Lincoln Elkhart Eminence Hurlbut Laenna Lake Fork Mount Pulaski Oran Orvil Prairie Creek Sheridan West Lincoln
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