SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfounded by the fuss over his birthday Thursday. Bells tolled, wreaths were laid, speeches intoned and banjos picked to mark ...

CHICAGO -- Two centuries after Abraham Lincoln's birth, everybody suddenly wants a piece of him. He's the subject of an avalanche of new books. New Lincoln pennies are being minted. The U.S. Postal ...

As Illinois celebrates Lincoln's birthday on Feb. 12, it's also important to remember two other historic figures who share the same birth date. The famous naturalist Charles Darwin's birth ...

For almost a century, Lincoln Motor Company paid homage to our 16th president in name only – hoping the mere mention of the man who saved the Union and abolished slavery would somehow cast an aura of ...