Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park: Lincoln’s first home in Illinois
Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park is where Abraham Lincoln's first home in Illinois was. The cabin is long gone, but you can still visit.
What to do at the Ulysses Grant National Historic Site
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site preserves Grant's wife Julia's home White Haven. Today visitor can tour the home, and see where Grant and Julia fell in love, married and raised their family prior to the Civil War.
See bison at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie near Chicago
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is about an hour from downtown Chicago. Visitors come to see fields of wildflowers and bison in the wild.
