Minutes of Commission meetings, 1917-1919.

Illinois State Historical Library

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The "Merci Train," or "Thank You Train," arrived in the United States from France in February 1949, in gratitude for a "Friendship Train" full of food and other necessities sent to France from the United States the previous year. The French train contained one car full of gifts for each state. Illinois' car was displayed in Chicago and Springfield before the contents were distributed. From the description of "Merci Train" Records, 1949-1950. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). Wo...

Illinois Centennial Building Commission.

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The initial Centennial Building Commission, comprised of the Governor, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Art Commission chairman, State Historical Society president, State Historical Library Board of Trustees president, and two additional persons appointed by the Governor, was created (1915) to obtain grounds for a new building adjacent to the State Capitol and to remove any existing buildings on that site. Legislation was passed authorizing constructio...

Illinois State Archives

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Illinois. State Library

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The Illinois State Library was created in 1843 to provide books to General Assembly members and other state officials. The Library was placed under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State, who was also designated State Librarian. In 1867, the Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction were named as commissioners to aid in State Library management. Their duties became strictly advisory in 1921 and were assumed in 1939 by a State Library Advisory Committee whose members are appointed by ...

Illinois State Museum

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Illinois. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

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The elective Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (1851-1975) was created by the Illinois General Assembly to oversee state educational activities; including compiling statistical data obtained from county school commissioners into an annual report to the Governor. Although his school law rulings were considered legally binding interpretations unless reversed by the courts, the Superintendent also granted state teaching certificates (1861- ); administered exceptional children educa...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Edwards, Ninian Wirt

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Springfield, Illinois lawyer, attorney general, state legislator, superintendent of public instruction, appointed Captain, Commissary of Subsistence during Civil War, land speculator, and biographer of his father Ninian Edwards, the third governor of Illinois. Married to Elizabeth P. Todd, sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. From the description of Papers, 1791-1908. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53167532 ...

Illinois. Office of Secretary of State

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The Office of Secretary of State, successor to the territorial Secretary, was established by the 1818 Constitution to keep both the state archives and a register of the Governor's official acts. The Secretary was appointed by the Governor until the 1848 Constitution made the office elective. In 1873, the Dept. of Archives and Index was created to "make and keep proper indexes to the executive records and all public acts, resolutions, papers and documents" filed with the Secretary of State. This ...

Memorial Hall (Springfield, Ill.)

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Centennial Building (Springfield, Ill.)

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Ninian Edwards House (Springfield, Ill.)

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Illinois. Department of Public Works and Buildings

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The Department of Public Works and Buildings was created by the Civil Administrative Code of 1917. It supervised operation of state highways, waterways and water resources, parks, printing, purchasing, and construction of state facilities. New agency absorbed State Highway Department and formed Waterways Division of Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners, the Rivers and Lakes Commission, and Illinois Waterway Commission. In 1925 Waterways Division was relocated in Department of P...