Monday marks Abraham Lincoln’s 215th birthday, and as always, it prompts some of the most profound questions of civics and citizenship: Do I get the day off from work? Do my kids have to go to school?

State of Illinois and Sangamon County employees will have the next two Mondays off from work. Those days are in observance of Abraham Lincoln's birthday on Feb. 12 and Presidents Day on Feb. 20, which ...

With February underway, Presidents’ Day will soon be observed as the country’s next federal holiday on the third Monday of this month, though it works a bit differently in Illinois. In honor of ...

Author, professor and noted Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame will be the featured speaker Feb. 15 for Abraham Lincoln Association’s Lincoln Birthday Banquet. The banquet will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at ...

Historian and author Nigel Hamilton, best known for his two-volume biography on President Bill Clinton and his portrait of a young John F. Kennedy, will be the featured speaker at the Abraham Lincoln ...

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

Hallmark doesn't sell birthday cards for 200-year-olds, so one intrepid artist had to come up with her own medium to wish Abraham Lincoln a happy bicentennial. A "birthday card" for Lincoln making its ...