I bet you always wondered where Ronald Reagan went to college, didn’t you? I’d driven by a million times but I finally detoured and photographed the leafy campus of Eureka College in Central Illinois.
Unlike many other small colleges around the country, it is holding on and continuing to enroll students.
Like any Midwestern university, it has bought up houses across the street from campus for various ancillary uses.
And of course Abraham Lincoln wandered through here at some point.
Lincoln, being an Illinois, also spoke in nearby Clinton, IL. “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Clinton, IL., September 8, 1858. vol. iii, p. 349 of Nicolay & Hay “Complete Works of Abaraham Lincoln”.