Topic - Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Illinois. It is tasked with the duty of maintaining most State-owned historic sites within Illinois, as well as its history library, and maximizing their educational and recreational value to visitors or on-line users. In addition, it manages the process for applications within the state for additions to the National Register of Historic Places. - Source: Wikipedia

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State seeks volunteers for Lincoln’s New Salem historic site

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FILE - In this Feb,. 10, 2012 file photo, school students enter the &quot;White House&quot; as a life-size Abraham Lincoln replica stands outside, while touring the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has denied that personal friendships are driving his proposal to make the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a separate state agency. A House committee on Monday,May 26, 2014, approved Madigan's idea to break the decade-old institution off from the Historic Preservation Agency. The measure moves to the House floor. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

House approves plan to separate Lincoln library

By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency shows the Pure Oil Station in Geneva, Ill. Located in Kane County, the building is in the Tudor Revival stye and is one of the more than two dozen Illinois buildings and downtown districts that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)

Illinois sites named to national historic register

Associated Press