A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Illinois

Illinois State Capitol

Springfield, IL

Springfield's 1888 capitol stands in the city Abraham Lincoln called home for over two decades.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Springfield, IL

The only home Abraham Lincoln ever owned, preserved in Springfield exactly as his family left it in 1861.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Springfield, IL

The fullest telling of Lincoln's life, a few blocks from the home he left for Washington.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Collinsville, IL

The largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, once bigger than London.

Pullman National Historical Park

Chicago, IL

The planned factory town built in the 1880s for the Pullman Palace Car Company, site of the 1894 Pullman Strike.

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio

Oak Park, IL

The house Frank Lloyd Wright built in 1889 and the studio where he developed the Prairie style.

Chicago Water Tower

Chicago, IL

An 1869 limestone water tower on Michigan Avenue, one of the few buildings in its path to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Frederick C. Robie House

Chicago, IL

Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie-style masterwork, completed in 1910 and named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

Lewis and Clark State Historic Site

Hartford, IL

A museum and reconstructed Camp River Dubois, where the Corps of Discovery wintered and set out on May 14, 1804.

Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Chicago, IL

A museum and research library on Michigan Avenue devoted to the citizen soldier and American military history.

First Division Museum at Cantigny

Wheaton, IL

A museum of the Army's 1st Infantry Division, named for the Battle of Cantigny in 1918, the first American victory of World War I.

Museum of Science and Industry

Chicago, IL

Home of U-505, the German submarine captured at sea by the U.S. Navy in 1944, displayed whole inside the museum.

Chicago History Museum

Chicago, IL

The city's museum in Lincoln Park, whose collection includes the bed in which Abraham Lincoln died.

DuSable Black History Museum

Chicago, IL

Founded in 1961 by Margaret Burroughs and named for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Chicago's first permanent non-Indigenous settler.

Willis Tower Skydeck

Chicago, IL

Glass ledges 103 floors up in what was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973 as the Sears Tower.

Wrigley Field

Chicago, IL

The ivy-covered home of the Cubs since 1916, opened in 1914 and the second-oldest ballpark in the major leagues.

Soldier Field

Chicago, IL

A lakefront stadium opened in 1924 and dedicated in 1925 to the American soldiers who died in World War I.

Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

Elwood, IL

A national cemetery dedicated in 1999 on land that was once the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant.