On this day in 1882, Mary Todd Lincoln, a former first lady of the United States and widow of the 16th president, died in Springfield, Ill., at 63. The couple had four sons, only one of whom outlived ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- From about the 1850s to the middle of the 20th century, anyone who traveled much at all in the Midwest was likely to pass through Springfield. The city was a major population ...