2008 Lincoln Bicentennial Bike Tour – Marshall, Decatur, Springfield
            Lincoln Bicentennial Bike Tour begins in Kentucky at Lincoln’s birthplace, traveling a close route the Lincoln family traveled through Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.  As the tour stops overnight in communities, Lincoln programs will be offered free to the public.  Funding will assist in programming costs.

Illinois State Library, “Lincoln for the Next Generation” Essay Contest – Springfield
      Essay contest in which students would compose their own Gettysburg Address.  Winning essays will be published in the 2009 edition of Handbook of Illinois Government.  Partial grant funding to assist in increasing awareness of the bicentennial and the contest by funding cost of bicentennial banners to be placed around Capitol Complex in Springfield. 

Historical Marker – Site of Lincoln Speech – Oquawka
            Marker at site of Lincoln speech on October 9, 1858 near the Mississippi River waterfront in Oquawka where Lincoln stopped on his travel from a debate with Douglas in Galesburg.

Jo Daviess County Historical Society & Museum – Galena
            Creation of permanent exhibition entitled: Through Lincoln’s Eyes: Galena and Grant.   Visitor activated video will tell Lincoln’s civil war interactions with Grant, Lincoln’s story of the Black Hawk War and highlight his early political life.

Warsaw Historical Society – Carthage
            Renovation of the “Little Brick” schoolhouse where Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, attended through the age of 11.  Funds will be used to repair floor joists and oak flooring and stabilize chimney and tuck pointing of brick and masonry.

Springfield College in Illinois – Springfield
            Quiddity, a Springfield College-Benedictine University literary journal, in partnership with WUIS-Springfield, WIPA-Pittsfield, NPR and PRI affiliate – invites submissions of poetry and propose aiming toward a national and international distribution in print and audio format.  The work will focus on the serious work of Abraham Lincoln as poet and inspirer of verse.

David Davis Mansion – Bloomington
            Partial funding for the creation of panel exhibit highlighting the role of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in the life of Abraham Lincoln.  The panels will serve as a prototype for 3 sets of duplicate panel exhibits which will travel to the additional 16 counties that at one time comprised the 8th Circuit.

Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County – Quincy
            Creation of exhibit for the Lincoln Gallery which will feature Lincoln-related artifacts and Lincoln’s connections with Quincy.  Funding will provide materials and labor for the construction of display panels, graphics design work, printing and installing large format graphics, construction of display boxes for smaller artifacts. 

Cairo Junior/Senior High School – Cairo
            Development of a Lincoln mini-interactive museum and reading room in the Cairo high school library.  Cairo students will assist with the reconstruction of the room; develop dramatic presentations to be scheduled throughout the bicentennial with special emphasis on the African American viewpoint. 

Early American Museum – Mahomet
            Design, fabrication and installation of large graphic panels and an interactive area in the opening scenario of a new exhibit, Champaign County’s Lincoln.  The exhibit will provide a framework for telling Lincoln’s story within the walls of the museum.

Lincoln-Douglas Society – Freeport
            Continuation of debate site improvements in Freeport.  Improvements include providing self-interpretative set of wayside exhibits, lighting, landscaping, and relocation of debate boulder. 

McLean County Museum of History – Bloomington
            Partial funding to assist in the creation of a statuary group of Abraham Lincoln, David Davis and Jesse Fell to be erected in Bloomington’s Lincoln Park.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Communities – Alton, Galesburg, Freeport, Quincy, Charleston, Jonesboro, Ottawa, Springfield
            Development of eight identical traveling exhibits.  The exhibits will provide a context to make the debates understandable and will be made available to public institutions through 2008.  After 2008, each debate community will have one as a permanent part of their Lincoln Douglas Debate site interpretation.

Shelby County Lincoln Heritage, Inc. – Shelbyville
            Partial funding of Shelbyville’s Let’s Debate Statuary Project.  Funding to be applied to the Looking for Lincoln Coalition Wayside Exhibit match program for nine wayside exhibits to further detail Lincoln’s story in Shelby County.

WILL-TV – Urbana
            Continuation of series of features on Lincoln’s life on the Eighth Judicial Circuit.  Funding will produce additional series of segments on Lincoln and the circuit and to produce a stand-alone documentary.  Shorter features and the documentary will be offered to PBS stations, providing the stations more options on broadcast material.

Friends of Community Public Art – Joliet
            Creation of a permanent monument highlighting Lincoln’s public life in Illinois prior to 1861.  The monument will consist of a full sized figurative bronze sculpture of Lincoln on top of a mosaic tile covered pedestal.  A teacher’s guide will be developed and distributed to area schools.  The guide will include suggested projects and lesson plans to illustrate Lincoln’s life in Illinois.

Illinois Humanities Council – Chicago
            Partial funding for the continuation of the second year of a nine-person roster of Lincoln-related humanities programs specifically targeting non-profit organizations in Illinois communities of 2,500 populations or less. 

Network Knowledge – Springfield
            Production of Lincoln Stories patterned on Illinois Stories.  Each segment will be 30 minutes in length and delve into the Lincoln legacy in museums, historic sites in Illinois and talk with people who are committed to maintaining the memory and image of Lincoln.  Creation of a series of DVDs from the series will be disseminated to libraries and schools in Illinois.

Jacksonville Area Lincoln Bicentennial Commission – Jacksonville
            Partial funding of a comprehensive education and arts program celebrating the life of Lincoln.  Funding will provide payment of books for the Lincoln Book for Every Student program.  The books will be distributed during the 2008-2009 school year to participating Jacksonville schools with enrollment totaling 4,450 students.  The books will serve as knowledge base for citywide competitions in reading, writing, visual arts and quiz bowls – all on Lincoln’s life and times.

Decatur Arts Council – Decatur
            The exhibition Portraying Lincoln: Man of Many Faces represents more than 50 artists who have chosen to give expression of Lincoln’s continuing influence.  The exhibit will be unveiled for its national showing in Decatur and while on display the Decatur Arts Council will provide public programming, art education portfolios based upon works of art representing Lincoln.

WTTW-TV – Chicago
            Series of educational television segments celebrating the life of Lincoln.  Partial funding is for the Lincoln in Illinois series of segments.  Ten 45-60 second Lincoln in Illinois on-air segments will be produced for use between programming breaks during 2009.  The segments will also be offered for broadcast at no cost to PBS stations. 

Ravinia Festival – Highland Park
            Partial funding in support of the commissioning of new work of dance and theatre by Bill T. Jones.  The work, tentatively titled A Good Man will explore concepts of what could have been had Lincoln lived.  Students from Ravinia’s Education and Community Partnership programs will participate in week-long residencies with Mr. Jones; students will also witness the creative process as Mr. Jones’ piece is developed. 

Canal Corridor Association – Lockport
            Celebrating Lincoln’s contributions to the I & M Canal and its subsequent impact on the state and nation, the Canal Corridor Association will create a traveling exhibit and programming for 2009 and 2010 through the I&M Canal Heritage Corridor and across Illinois.  Historical interpretation about Lincoln’s influences on the canal will be included in all programming.  Project includes:  outdoor interpretative reader trail with panels telling the story of Lincoln and the I&M Canal; traveling exhibit highlighting Lincoln’s connection with the canal; exhibit brochures; student activity book; school lesson plans.

Main Street Lincoln – Lincoln
            Creation of visible public and creation of live interpretative program at Lincoln related sites in Logan County.  Project includes the creation of kiosk/plaza which provides the picture of Lincoln in Logan County; production of a brochure which includes maps and GPS coordinates and would be available throughout the county; interpretative journey provided through cell phone interaction; signage both in the outlying communities and on the trails to the communities where sites are located; creation of painting of Lincoln giving speech in 1858 at Logan County Courthouse.

Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices
            Development of an interpretative plan for the Tinsley Project at the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices.  The Tinsley Project will focus on accurately restoring Lincoln’s office space and federal courtroom that existed in the building.  The project will recreate the dry goods store and introduce living history interpretation. 

Mount Vernon Appellate Courthouse
            Creation of a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Fifth Appellate Court Building in Mt. Vernon

Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices
            Development of an interpretative plan for the Tinsley Project at the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices.  The Tinsley Project will focus on accurately restoring Lincoln’s office space and federal courtroom that existed in the building.  The project will recreate the dry goods store and introduce living history interpretation. 

Lincoln Home National Historic Site
            Funding to support Lincoln Home Living Historical Interpretation Program

Old State Capitol Foundation
Creation of 10 Lincoln structures designed with historical descriptions to be placed on Illinois Bicentennial Commission website; after bicentennial to be housed on Looking for Lincoln website.

Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Additional funding for operations, maintenance and other related costs associated with the revision of entries, research and addition of new entries to the Lincoln Log Day by Day. 

David Davis Mansion – Bloomington
            Partial funding for the creation of panel exhibit highlighting the role of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in the life of Abraham Lincoln.  The panels will serve as a prototype for 3 sets of duplicate panel exhibits which will travel to the additional 16 counties that at one time comprised the 8th Circuit.