Event Details

End: September 25, 2015
Contact: shanta.thoele@illinois.gov
More Info: http://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/Involved/Pages/Conference.aspx

The annual Conference on Illinois History is scheduled for September 24-25, 2015, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in downtown Springfield and is the state's largest meeting devoted to the history of the Prairie State.  The conference includes 25 sessions that feature topics such as politics, Abraham Lincoln, labor, race, immigration, and the Civil War.  Teachers will benefit from workshops on a variety of topics. 

For a printed copy, contact Shanta.thoele@illinois.gov or 217-524-6045.

Thursday luncheon speaker:  Fritz Klein as President Abraham Lincoln

Friday luncheon speaker:  Theodore J. Karamanski, “Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History”