Empty Nest Expat

President Obama taking the oath of office I notice the race is on for the Obama Presidential Library. The two cities mentioned as possib...

Ben Franklin said after America declared her independence: "you have a Republic, if you can keep it." The last eight years we cam...

Today the Governor of my former state of Illinois was thrown out of office without a single legislator rising to defend him. Having spent f...

Lincoln's words are everywhere in Springfield. It's easy to learn much of them just walking the sites. This is the old State Capi...

One of the beautiful ways Abraham Lincoln has been memorialized in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois is through the Lincoln Memorial Gar...

When I first drove into Springfield, I was shocked to see all kinds of signs about the Springfield Race Riots of 1908. What the heck was th...

One of the objections I kept hearing about the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (across the street from the Museum) is that there's ...

I realized when I made the decision to move to Prague that there was a whole lot of stuff in Illinois and the Midwest in general that I didn...