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Governor Uses Convention Cover To Ax Lincoln Cabin
August 30, 2008
Strange news from the Land of Lincoln. The Arlington Heights Daily Herald reported that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, a democrat, flew home on the climactic day of the Democratic National Convention. And then he immediately cut hundreds of state jobs and closed nearly two dozen historic sites and parks — including the Lincoln Log Cabin in Lerna!
In the story, a fellow Illinois lawmaker accused the governor of “trying to bury the cuts and closings under all the Obama coverage,” but the governor’s spokesperson said that he returned to Illinois from the convention simply because “He wanted to watch it at home with his family.”
Another article, in the Chicago Sun Times, sets the Log Cabin closing date as October 1, and adds that this is only months before the Lincoln Bicentennial in 2009.
We were at the cabin earlier this month, and there was an air of doom among its employees and volunteers. In the gift shop we signed a petition to fight the closing — and then we bought a very reasonably-priced souvenir stovepipe hat.
Maybe the governor mumbled his words, and meant to close the Museum of Holography in Chicago. That would be a loss, too, but not as baffling a loss.
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October 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
What I am outraged I went here when I was young and always thought I would go back. What is he thinking??? It is like an Icon - why are they throwing our Icons and history away???