SPRINGFIELD

ABRAHAM LINCOLN MUSEUM

'Flower City' Springfield, Illinois: Home of President Abraham Lincoln & Vachel Lindsay, capital of Illinois, and seat of Sangamon County.  Springfield is a world-class, All American city with a rich and vibrant history. Experience our sites and attractions and make Springfield your favorite city to live, work or visit.

CAPITOL BUILDING, ILLINOIS STATE

The most famous past resident is ABRAHAM LINCOLN who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include a multitude of historic sites connected with Lincoln.

BUILDINGD AND PARK

The city Springfield is about 100 miles from Peoria, a journey of 90 minutes. Sunday, 25th May 2014 we, with Raghu-Shubha and Lahari decided to make a trip to the place. Lunch packed, left by noon and reached place by 1.30pm.
First was visit to Lincoln Museum, with a movies, displays and exhibits seeing and listening and clicking photos. We had food (puliogare and mosaranna and fruits) around the place. Afterwards we went to see the Lincoln House and since there lot of visitors, they did not allow us.We went round the premises, walked along, what looked liked a deserted city, few cars plying on the road and hardly any people.

LINCOLN'S TOMB, MEMORIAL

We visited the Capital building of State of Illinois and also Abrham Lincoln's Tomb on the way.
Back to Peoria home by 8.30pm,
written Tuesday 03 June 2014, Bengaluru.