The city was electric. Downtown Springfield was crammed on the night of the century’s closest presidential election. Two miles to the north, in the crisp autumn silence of Nov. 7, 1876, an audacious, if preposterous, scheme was unfolding. Thugs had broken into Abraham Lincoln’s tomb to steal his body. Counterfeiters crippled by the imprisonment of […]
John O’Connor
John O'Connor is a retired Associated Press reporter. An Illinois native, he has lived in Springfield since 1994.
