The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

Some of the parks along the waterfront include Lincoln Park, Grant Park, Burnham Park and Jackson Park.

Lincoln Park, the largest of the city's parks, covers and has over 20 million visitors each year, making it second only to Central Park in New York City in number of visitors.

Lincoln Park is a park stretching for along the waterfront and containing the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

* Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center, New York City and in Meridian Hill Park, Washington D. C .-castings of the same work, 1921

At the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park, Douglass was the keynote speaker.

* Presidents Park – Freshmen – Completed in 1989, and housing approximately 1, 100 students in twelve halls ( Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Harrison, Lincoln, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Monroe, Washington ).

* Lincoln Park ( disambiguation )

The band ’ s renaissance culminated with a change in name ; from Hybrid Theory, the band once again changed its name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica ’ s Lincoln Park.

* 1961 – Lar Park Lincoln, American actress

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Similarly in Illinois there is Lincoln country to be seen -- his tomb and other landmarks.

A most revealing recent case is Textile Workers Union v. Lincoln Mills.

`` The pattern '', says Dr. Morton Schillinger, psychologist at New York's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy, `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly, virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night ''.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

The idea was never commercialized, but Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

There is an early example of the 12th century in Lincoln ; in France the metal work of the doors of Notre Dame at Paris is perhaps the most beautiful in execution, but examples are endless throughout France and England.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

In 1831 he was elected member for St Ives in Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832, and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

With the d ' Isigny name anglicised as " Disney ", the family settled in a village now known as Norton Disney, south of the city of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire.

* November 9 – Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street ( the 2-day disaster destroys about of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US $ 60 million in damage ).

* November 14 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

The war between England & France has become so brutal that Hugh of Lincoln is warned that " nothing now is safe, neither the city to dwell in nor the highway for travel ".

* Lincoln Park, Michigan, a city

He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln.

Sherman then dispatched a famous message to Lincoln, offering him the city as a Christmas present.

Abraham Lincoln had become convinced that the appropriate objective for his Eastern army was the army of Robert E. Lee's, not any geographic features such as a capital city, but he and his generals knew that the most reliable way to bring Lee to a decisive battle was to threaten his capital.

) While Burnside began assembling a supply base at Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, the Lincoln administration entertained a lengthy debate about the wisdom of his plan, which differed from the president's preference of a movement south on the O & A and a direct confrontation with Lee's army instead of the movement focused on the city of Richmond.

Lincoln had long advocated this strategy for his generals, recognizing that the city would certainly fall after the loss of its principal defensive army.

Lincoln had long advocated this strategy for his generals, recognizing that the city would certainly fall after the loss of its principal defensive army.

The tallest building in both the city and county is a 12-story building at Lincoln Center.

It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, and presently two major cross-country freeways, I-15 and I-80, intersect in the city.

On April 16, 1862 Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D. C. and freeing the estimated 3, 500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U. S. territories.

Upon her death in 1290 at Harby, near the city of Lincoln, the body of Queen Eleanor was carried to the Gilbertine priory of St. Catherine, Lincoln in the south of Lincoln, where she was embalmed.

North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States.

North Platte is the principal city of the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Lincoln, Logan, and McPherson counties.

* Some city streets on which the Lincoln Highway was routed still carry the street name " Lincoln Way " or " Lincolnway ", including: Mishawaka, Indiana ; Valparaiso, Indiana ; Aurora, Illinois ; DeKalb, Illinois ; Ames, Iowa ; Cheyenne, Wyoming ; Auburn, California ; and Galt, California.