Forgotten Fate of the Place Where Lincoln Won His Party’s Nomination
This month marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln winning the Republican nomination for president here in Chicago. That momentous event occurred on May 18, 1860, inside a large, two-story, pine-plank convention hall at what is today the southeast corner of Lake Street and Wacker Drive. Like other political gathering places in its day, the hastily built hall was known as the Wigwam. Everybody knows what became of Lincoln (who wasn’t in Chicago for the convention), but what happened to the Wigwam?…
By Geoffrey Johnson
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2010/Chicago-Republican-Wigwam-Where-Abraham-Lincoln-Won-1860-Presidential-Nomination/
