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Carved wood chair with slightly faded red velvet upholstery, located next to a brick fireplace.

It's a sign that represents the Ronald Reagan Trail. Its a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect parts of Illinois that were important for former President Ronald Reagan

A group of Knox students stands in the Green Oaks prairie in bright yellow fire protective shirts. They smile as they paint their faces with the ash of the prairie fire in stripes across their cheeks, nose, and forehead. Their facepaint mimics war…

A statue depicting Carl Sandburg and a goat in the town square of Galesburg Illinois.

A chair that President Abraham Lincoln sat in after the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858. The chair now resides in the Alumni Room in Knox College's Old Main building.

After explaining that prairie burning is originally a Native American practice, Professor Stuart Allison says that "we're maintaining that tradition of burning prairies, keeping them open. It's both an ecological and a cultural activity,."

The gravesite of freedom seeker, Susan Richardson

Monument to Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke (1817-1901) on the lawn of the Knox County Courthouse in Galesburg, Illinois to her service as a field nurse in the American Civil War.

A color print originally on a postcard. A large gathering of people dressed in 1800s fashion, with a man standing on a wagon in the forefront. They are standing in front of a building with an American flag flying on top of it, and a banner across the…

This mural is a large image of the Green Oaks prairie printed on a wall at the top of the stairs on the third floor of Alumni Hall. One image of this mural is zoomed out, and one image is zoomed in to show the white text in the bottom left of the…