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Tuesday, February 12, 2013  Illinois may be the Land of Lincoln, but the famous first family has enduring ties to Southeast Iowa.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012  Kirksville residents had a chance to learn something new about President Lincoln.

Thursday, September 09, 2010  Regional Round-Up is the place to click for interesting news and lifestyle stories across the area.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009  With a hand on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural bible, and before a crowd stretching across the National Mall toward where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream of racial equality, the 47-year-old Obama was sworn in as the first black American president by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Sunday, December 28, 2008  Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn says he's certain scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be out of office by Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthday celebration in February  2009.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008  Barack Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that Bible, part of the collection of the Library of Congress.