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An Illinois Times & Visit Springfield Publication CAPITALCAPITAL CITYCITY FREE VISITORVISITOROfficial Visitors Guide of Springfield 2021/22 capitalcityvisitor.com visitspringfieldillinois.com 2 | capitalcityvisitor.com | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | capitalcityvisitor.com | 3 4 | capitalcityvisitor.com | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 About the cover artist David Hinds This year’s cover, “Welcome to Springfield,” is by David Hinds of Springfield, winner of this year’s Capital City Visitor cover art contest, which drew more than 40 entries. Hinds and the other entrants will have their artwork on display at the Old State Capitol beginning April 24, and cash prizes were awarded to the top three winners. Hinds is a self-taught artist who works predominantly in pastels after observing folk artist George Colin’s mastery of the medium. George and his wife, Winnie, were treasured neighbors and friends. Hinds grew up on a farm situated between Lincoln’s New Salem and Springfield and has many fond memories to draw from, including summer vacation adventures across America in the family’s tiny camper. Hinds shares his love of art with his wife, Lynn Snyder-Hinds, whose art graced the cover of the 2019-2020 Capital City Visitor. Hinds says he is still experimenting and learning as he goes, and the best compliment is hearing his work brings happiness to those viewing it. He hopes his “Welcome to Springfield” piece reflects that every day is a celebration in the Land of Lincoln. CAPITAL CITY VISITOR 2021/22 PUBLISHER Michelle Ownbey [email protected], ext.1139 ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER James Bengfort [email protected], ext.1142 EDITOR Fletcher Farrar [email protected], ext.1140 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rachel Otwell [email protected] CALENDAR EDITOR Stacie Lewis [email protected] PRODUCTION DESIGNERS Joseph Copley, [email protected] Brandon Turley, [email protected] ADVERTISING Beth Parkes-Irwin, [email protected] Yolanda Bell, [email protected] Ron Young, [email protected] BUSINESS Brenda Matheis, [email protected] Copyright 2021. No portion of this publication may be reproduced without the express written permission of the publisher. This complete publication is available in digital form at www.capitalcityvisitor.com. Capital City Visitor is published by Illinois Times, 1240 South Sixth Street, Springfield, IL 62703. 217-753-2226. Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | capitalcityvisitor.com | 5 6 | capitalcityvisitor.com | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 p15 Contents Abe’s hometown p8 Museums and historic sites p14 Springfield Art p8 Association p20 Visual and performing arts p22 Visit Springfield highlights p25 Springfield city and p44 downtown maps p38 The capital city p42 What the locals do for fun p44 The outdoors p48 p52 The nightlife p52 Food and drinks p55 Drink up p64 Shopping/Retail p66 p55 This year’s big events p69 Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | capitalcityvisitor.com | 7 The president and his family greet visitors in the museum’s entry plaza, with a replica of the White House in the background. Abe’s hometown Meet Springfield’s best-known resident and revered icon Due to COVID-19 restrictions, it is pioneer village helped elect Lincoln to Washington.” just curious about the life of the Great advised to check individual websites for the state legislature, he had to borrow After Lincoln’s assassination, a Emancipator, you should begin your up-to-date information and offerings money to purchase a suit. At the age grieving nation cast him as a mythic visit at the museum, on the northeast of 28 he moved to Springfield without figure. Over the years Springfield corner of Jefferson and Sixth streets. Two centuries after his birth, enough money to buy a bed. Through has become a destination for many The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Springfield’s best-known resident initiative, hard work and talent, he American pilgrimages. But in Lincoln’s Library and Museum parking ramp is remains a revered icon, a leader became an established and respected hometown you’ll find not only the off Sixth Street between Madison and who bore the weight of destiny to lawyer, was elected to the U.S. remnants of Honest Abe the rail- Mason streets. his untimely demise. Born in dire Congress, debated Stephen Douglas in splitter, you’ll also discover a more All museum exhibits are located poverty and self-educated, Abraham an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate, complex, shrewd and wondrous man on the ground floor, and all facilities Lincoln rose to lead our nation during and in 1860 was elected the 16th than the one likely encountered in are in compliance with the Americans its darkest time. His words inspired president of the United States. your high school textbooks. with Disabilities Act. On the entryway Americans during the Civil War, and As Lincoln left for the nation’s floor, a compass points visitors to they inspire us today. capital in 1861 and the Civil War Abraham Lincoln Presidential the plaza where the historical tour Lincoln was born in Kentucky, grew appeared imminent, he prophetically Museum begins. Visitors see a replica of up in Indiana and came into his own told a crowd assembled at the train 212 N. Sixth St. Lincoln’s boyhood home in Indiana in Illinois. As a young man, he arrived station in Springfield: “I now leave, 217-558-8948 and the front of the White House as in New Salem. A year later, he was not knowing when, or whether ever, presidentlincoln.illinois.gov it appeared in 1861. From that sunny elected captain of a militia company in I may return, with a task before me Admission atrium-like area, with its 70-foot the Black Hawk Indian wars. When the greater than that which rested on Whether you’re a Lincoln researcher or ceiling, visitors may proceed to any of 8 | capitalcityvisitor.com | www.visitspringfieldillinois.com | Capital City Visitor 2021/2022 the display areas. organizations. Whether learning Lincoln Home National This state-of-the-art facility was more about the life and times of Historic Site carefully designed with exacting President Lincoln or following 426 S. 7th St. historical detail. Amazingly well- your own family’s genealogical 217-391-3221 preserved artifacts tell the entire ties to Illinois, the Presidential nps.gov/liho life story of our nation’s 16th Library is an amazing resource of Free (free ticket required for home President. Dedicated to the life information for families, historians tour) and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the and scholars. The National Park Service invites Presidential Museum, unlike any you to walk in the footsteps other in the U.S., features high-tech Union Square Park of Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln exhibits, interactive displays, and Union Square Park, also located Home National Historic Site. multimedia programs, as well as a across the street from the Abraham Conveniently located in downtown reproduction of the White House as Lincoln Presidential Library Springfield, the four-square-block it looked in 1861. and Museum, is home to two historic site is within easy walking The holographic and special Abraham Lincoln statues and “Acts distance of several other historic effects theaters will entertain, of Intolerance,” a sculpture by sites, hotels and restaurants. educate and mesmerize you with Preston Jackson commemorating In 1861, Abraham Lincoln left ghostly images, live actors and the Springfield Race Riot of 1908. his home of 17 years – the only high action. Witness the 1860 The park is the site of occasional home he ever owned – to serve as Presidential Election as though it concerts and special events the 16th President of the United were happening today, complete hosted by the Abraham Lincoln States. The Lincoln Home has been with television news coverage and Presidential Library and Museum. completely restored to its 1860 campaign commercials. Items from the institution’s world-class Lincoln Collection, numbering in the tens of thousands, are exhibited on a The Illinois Gallery rotating basis in the Museum’s hosts a changing variety of presentations about Illinois history Treasures Gallery, including an and art. Upcoming exhibits: original hand-written copy of the Gettysburg Address, the evening The State of Sound ( gloves in President Lincoln’s pocket April 30, 2021 – Jan. 23, 2022) the night he was assassinated, From Muddy Waters to REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick to Earth and the quill pen used to sign the Wind and Fire and Chance the Rapper, the land of Lincoln has Emancipation Proclamation. produced some of the most highly celebrated music in rock In Mrs. Lincoln’s Attic, kids can history. Musicians, legendary radio stations, and musical gear play with a model of the Lincoln have shaped the sonic history of Illinois and the world. This Home, try on period clothing, exhibit will showcase the achievements and contributions perform chores from the 1800s, of Illinois’ finest in music. Written by award-winning author, and play with reproduction historic documentary-producer and former Chicago Sun-Times columnist toys. They can also have their and critic, Dave Hoekstra. photos take with life-size models of Abraham Lincoln as a boy and an adult, as well as with Mary Todd and the Lincoln children. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Library and Museum 112 N. Sixth St. 800-610-2094 Lincoln’s Life in Letters (Coming in 2021) presidentlincoln.illinois.gov At its heart, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Free Museum is a showcase for the millions of items housed in its The Lincoln Presidential Library is collection devoted to Illinois history and Abraham Lincoln. On any just across Jefferson Street from given day, at least 100 of those items are on display.

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