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.
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.