Rogers was awarded a special Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial edition of The Order of Lincoln from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, the highest honor that can be awarded by the State of Illinois.

In honor of Abraham Lincoln, the country's 16th president who hailed from Illinois, Lincoln's Birthday is observed as a state holiday in Illinois, falling on Feb. 12 each year. While Lincoln's ...

for close to six months in order to travel to Kentucky and to find a new wife. He returned remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston, who made sure to give Abe any opportunity she could for an education. At ...