The capital of Illinois, Springfield, located roughly in the center of the state, is a national place of pilgrimage. Here, in Oak Ridge Cemetery, are buried Abraham Lincoln, his wife and three of his four children. Lincoln worked in the town as a lawyer from 1837 to 1861, when he was elected President. Places in Springfield associated with
Lincoln - his house, lawyer's office, the Old State Capitol and New Salem, where he spent his youth (20 mi. to the north-west) are open to the public. Other features of interest are the Illinois State Museum, the Governor's Mansion (the third oldest in the United States) and the Dana Thomas House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.