George Godfrey, Native American author and academic, photographed along the Potawatomi Death Trail, Old Jacksonville Road, near Berlin
Jesse Johns, billiards table repairman, at home, Clinton
Bill and Jane Moore, authors, historians and pastors, at the Congregational Church of Christ, DeKalb
John J. Dunphy, writer and bookstore owner, Alton
Current owner Will Law, former owners Demi and Nick Adam, Ariston Cafe, Litchfield
David Brady, historian and writer, along the Edwards Trace, southeast of Springfield
Jamie Jones, musician and owner of the Council Hill Station, east of Galena
Jim and Joyce Staff, at the west end of Courthouse Square, Vandalia
Lynn Asp, Director of the Lincoln Highway Association National Headquarters, Franklin Grove
Docents and tour guides, Owen Lovejoy Homestead, Princeton
Stella Grobe, 105, at home in Dixon
RJ and Lavonne Spillane, at their stagecoach station, Apple River
Steve Rensberry, Editor of the Times-Tribune, Troy
Father Linus Umoren and church member John Reed, President of the Kaskaskia Cahokia Trail Association John Reed, at Holy Family Church, Cahokia
Justin Pickering, owner of The Cabin at Judy Creek, Glen Carbon
Lisa and Dean Ubik, South Shore Inn, Hegewisch
Jim Post, folk singer and entertainer, Galena
Robert Buman, former miner, as General Ulysses S. Grant, Grant’s Home, Galena
Nick Kallas, Executive Director, Illinois Railway Museum, Union
John and Noreen Dollinger, 1834 Mule Barn on the I&M Canal and Old Rutherford’s Tavern, Dollinger Farm, near Channahon
Eugene Smania, retired Illinois Department of Transportation bridge maintenance technician, at Utica Bridge(s) site
Dave (Doc) Prosser, decorated veteran, musician, retired Cypress Creek Wildlife Refuge staffer & half Choctaw native, at Trail of Tears site, Hamburg Hill, Union County
Tom Babb, owner of the Irle-Babb farm, an Illinois Sesquicentennial Farm, near Leverett
Mary Buhr, historian, Iroquois County Genealogical Society, Watseka
Tyrone Haymore, Director/Curator, Robbins History Museum, Robbins
Charles Balesi, author, Adrien M. Richard Heritage Preserve, Bourbonnais
Martha and John Schwegman, Kincaid Mounds, near Unionville
Gillette Ransom, in the Gillett Chapel, with a bust of her ancestor John Dean Gillett who was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, near Elkhart
Dan Klavine, owner of Klavine Motor Company, Geneseo
Ferrel Anderson, founder of the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archeology and President of the Quad Cities Archeological Society, at the Blackhawk Museum and Lodge, Rock Island
Basu, farmer and historian, Pembroke Township
Pam Basu, farmer, historian and museum director, Pembroke Township
Joe Devera, senior paleontologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, at his lab near Carterville
Nevin Wirth, Township Road Commissioner and historian, near Buda
Susan Hoblit, designer and pilot, standing in the shed where family friend Abraham Lincoln once stayed, on her family farm near Atlanta
Mike McNerny, historian, Silkwood Inn, near Mulkeytown
Dennis Downes, sculptor and historian, founder of the Great Lakes Trail Marker Society, next to his sculpture located at The Grove, Glenview
Becky Adams, historian, on the square in Clinton where she once owned a building frequented by Abraham Lincoln
Sharadi and Johari Kweli, farmers and owners of I-yabo Farm, Pembroke Township
Brad Koldehoff, Illinois Department of Transportation Chief Archeologist, at a remnant of the Shawneetown-Kaskaskia Trail, near Ellis Grove on Route 3
Guy Fraker, author, Lincoln expert and former attorney, at the Abraham Lincoln Eighth Judicial Circuit Marker on the McLean-Woodford County Line, near Carlock
Rick Trahan, Supervisor and blacksmith, John Deere Historic Site, Grand Detour
Emily Lyons, Curator for the Randolph County Archives and Museum, with the “Liberty Bell of the West”, Kaskaskia
Darrell Duensing, historian, at Fort De Chartres, near Prairie du Rocher
Corene and Milton McDaniel at the historic Tamms railroad depot
Sabula Rail Bridge across the Mississippi River for the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad, looking east from Sabula, IA
Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge, US Rt 52, near Savannah
Elkhart
Former button stamping building, Pearl
Saw and Grist Mill, New Salem, on the Sangamon River, near Lewisburg
Council Hill Station owner Jamie Jones performs, November, 2018
Stagecoach Trail, near Galena
Train Station, Galena
Council Hill Station interior, Council Hill
Cahokia Courthouse
Railroad yards, Dupo
Sugar Creek Covered Bridge, one of five remaining 19th century bridges in Illinois, near Chatham
Union Pacific dual rail line bridge, opened in 1905, Thebes
Eads Bridge, opened in 1874, St. Louis
Canadian National Railway swing bridge across the Mississippi River, opened in 1868, intersecting with the BNSF Railway tracks, before the tunnel at East Dubuque
Fort Kaskaskia State Park, view to the northwest over the Mississippi River
Looking northwest from Fort Kaskaskia State Park, with Lewis and Clark sign and upstream barge
The Crenshaw House, also known as the Old Slave House, near Equality
Francis Vigo statue and Clark Memorial, George Rodgers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana
Monks Mound, Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site, along the National Road route, near Collinsville
Cockerel Branch Creek in Saline County, from the 3 Miles Carnahan Road, flowing through the historic salt wells., near Equality
“Battle of Fort Dearborn Park”, at E 18th Street and S Calumet Avenue, Chicago
One of the Rt 66 starting point signs, at E Adams Street and S Wabash Avenue, Chicago
MacArthur Bridge, near Mississippi Avenue and Victory Avenue, Kansas City Southern Railroad, East St. Louis
30° bend, Chain of Rocks Bridge, former Rt 66 route over the Mississippi River completed in 1928, near Madison
Black Hawk statue, wrapped for repairs in March, 2019, created in 1910-11 by Lorado Taft, Lowden State Park, near Oregon
Underground Railroad site, Sand Cave, Pope County
Hennepin Canal Lock #22, near Mineral
Rt 66, Atlanta
Government Bridge over the Mississippi River, completed in 1896, from Davenport to Rock Island Arsenal
Psycho Silo southern gate, Langley
Lyndon Bridge over the Rock River, completed in 1894, Whiteside County
Suspension Bridge over the Kaskaskia River, completed in 1861, renamed General Dean Suspension Bridge in 1953, Carlyle
2019 flood stains, Missouri 51 Bridge over the Mississippi River, Chester
Upstairs Courtroom where Abraham Lincoln litigated before Judge David Davis, Mt. Pulaski Courthouse, Mt. Pulaski
Hogan’s North Elevator, Illinois-Michigan Canal, Seneca
Beached barge and the CHV Ste. Genevieve Ferry, leaving the Modoc landing to cross the Mississippi River
B. Harley Bradley House, on the banks of the Kankakee River, built in 1900, the first Prairie Style home by Frank Lloyd Wright, Riverview Historic District, Kankakee
Rail and highway double-decker Ft. Madison Toll Bridge, a swinging truss bridge, opened in 1927 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, connects Iowa and Niota, Illinois
The Chicago Portage, National Historic Site protected by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, located off Harlem Avenue just north of I-55, near Forest View
Marquette Dolomite Cross Monument, IL Rt 100, north of Grafton
Wabash Cannonball Bridge over the Wabash River, completed in 1897, St. Francisville
Broadwell Tavern, built in 1824 and once a stagecoach stop, located in what was Clayville, on Rt 125 southeast of Pleasant Plains
Stony Creek, near Oakwood
Judge David Davis’ bedroom at the Davis Mansion, Bloomington
The mouth of the Hennepin Canal, at the Mississippi River, south of the Quad Cities
Former Illinois-Michigan Canal aqueduct and former Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railroad Bridge, over the Fox River, Ottawa
Illinois Central Railroad boxcar with the “Mainline of Mid-America” logo, Monticello Railway Museum
The covered bridge over the Mary’s River is Illinois’ oldest, built in 1854 and was part of planked road between Bremen and Chester
Looking southeast toward the Earle C. Clements Bridge from the steps of the Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site, opened in 1841, Old Shawneetown
Pere Marquette State Park, Illinois River above flood stage, north of Grafton
MV Ron Hunter passes downstream on the Mississippi River under the Missouri Rt 51/Illinois Rt 150 Chester Bridge with the Union Pacific Railroad in the foreground
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