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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Buildings and structures in Coles County, Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, Education in Coles County, Illinois, Geography of Coles County, Illinois, National Register of Historic Places in Coles County, Illinois, People from Coles County, Illinois, Visitor attractions in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Mad Gasser of Mattoon, FutureGen, Thomas Lincoln, Ashmore Estates, Charlotte Martin, Joe Knollenberg, Jim Edgar, Illinois's 15th congressional district, Jackie Moran, Arland D. Williams, Jr., Cassie Edwards, Franklin Cox, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Hope Summers, Carlos Talbott, Alonzo Gesner, Louis H. Galbreath, National Register of Historic Places listings in Coles County, Illinois, Will Leitch, Big Twelve Conference, Frank Edwards, Apollo Conference, Marty Pattin, Charleston Community Unit School District 1, Burger King, Kim Chizevsky, Embarras River, George H. Wilson, Charleston-Mattoon micropolitan area, Mattoon Community Unit School District 2, Pemberton Hall, Dale Righter, Sarah Bush Lincoln, Orlando B. Ficklin, Lake Land College, Booth Library, Airtight Bridge, Mary Josephine Booth, Otis F. Glenn, Oakland Community Unit School District 5, Lake Mattoon, O. C. Hackett, Charlie Whitehouse, Coles County Memorial Airport, Timothy R. Young, WEIU, Rich T. Buckler, Kevin Mouton, Ray Fisher, Coles County Courthouse, Lake Paradise, O'Brien Stadium, James W. Morrison. Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln (; February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis - the American Civil War - preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, ...