A former Quincy mayor will give a presentation about the city's history as part of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum’s History Happy Hour series.

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

In July 1858, Lincoln formally challenged Douglas to “divide time, and address the same audiences” as many as 100 times. Douglas felt trapped. If he declined, he might be accused of cowardice.

SPRINGFIELD — Even 162 years after their historic debates, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln are still going at it. And the question of slavery is once again at the center of the debate.

Douglas statue comes down, but Lincoln had racist views, too. September 20, 2020. FILE - In this May 22, 2020 file photo, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker answers questions from the media, from his ...

This looked so lame that Lincoln was instructed to challenge Douglas to debate. Douglas was at first not minded to accept, largely because he didn’t need to, and because it served no purpose of his to ...

Thanks to firebrands on talk radio, Web blogs and biased cablenetworks, Americans are more stirred up and combative than everwhen it comes to airing their political views. But there was a timewhen … ...