Celebrate Illinois: 200 Years in the Land of Lincoln | PeoriaMagazines.com

Photography by David Vernon

Inside the first comprehensive museum exhibit on our state’s bicentennial...

Lottie Phillips, assistant curator of history, and Bill Conger, curator of collections and exhibitions

Manierre Dawson, Figure by the Window, 1915, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum, Gift of Dr. Lewis Obi, Frank McKeown and Lefferts Mabie

Ben Zobrist’s batting helmet and gloves worn during his famous Game 7 10th-inning hit that led to a Cubs victory in the 2016 World Series, alongside a 1995 World Series championship hat signed by Peoria native Jim Thome

Roger Brown, Cathedrals of Space, 1983, Color lithograph, 40 x 30 inches, Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum, Gift of JP Morgan Chase

Lottie Phillips, assistant curator of history, holds a 1933 cartoon from Illinois-born artist Helen Hokinson, a noted cartoonist for The New Yorker.

Gladys Nilsson, Some Cats at Play Sum Play at Cats, Watercolor on paper, 1992

A ceramic sculpture by Marlene Miller of Washington, Illinois, offers a rich, textured portrayal of President Abraham Lincoln. Miller, a long-time art instructor at Illinois Central College, is internationally known for her figurative ceramic work.

A ceramic sculpture by Marlene Miller of Washington, Illinois, offers a rich, textured portrayal of President Abraham Lincoln. Miller, a long-time art instructor at Illinois Central College, is internationally known for her figurative ceramic work.

A ceramic sculpture by Marlene Miller of Washington, Illinois, offers a rich, textured portrayal of President Abraham Lincoln. Miller, a long-time art instructor at Illinois Central College, is internationally known for her figurative ceramic work.

Illinois-born authors, first editions

Bill Conger, curator of collections and exhibitions

A model of Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper, for which he was granted a patent in 1834, on loan from the Peoria Ag Lab. He founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of International Harvester.

A model of Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper, for which he was granted a patent in 1834, on loan from the Peoria Ag Lab. He founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of International Harvester.

Caterpillar’s first diesel engine, “Old Betsy,” made in 1930, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution

Underground Railroad in Illinois

Typewriter belonging to Sen. Everett Dirksen of Pekin

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