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  • Time to give Illinois a new name (The State of Abraham Lincoln)

    04/12/2005 11:08:34 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 35 replies · 960+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | April 12, 2005 | Jim Nowlan
    The opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield this month can become the launch for an initiative to change the name of Illinois to that of the State of Abraham Lincoln. I'm serious. Few in the world know what or where Illinois is. Some have heard of Chicago. Yet the world knows Abraham Lincoln--the Great Emancipator; the rock who kept our Union of diverse peoples from fragmenting; the homespun, virtuous, self-educated man of the heartland; a hero, indeed, to all in the world who yearn to be free. In contrast, our citizens have never really resonated...