Lincoln bust - Chicago, IL - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

A battered and neglected bust of Abraham Lincoln at the corner of 69th & Wolcott in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. It was commissioned by Phil Blomquist and the attached plaque says erected August 31, 1926. Blomquist owned the Lincoln Gas Station that once stood on the vacant lot behind the statue. The gas station was named after the street it was on, Lincoln, which was renamed Wolcott Avenue in 1936. At the time, Englewood was Irish, German, and Italian. By the 1970s, it was a mostly African-American neighborhood and has been struggling ever since as one of the poorest in the city.

Thanks to "Lincoln in Illinois" by Ron Schramm and Richard Hart for bringing this to my attention.

From wikipedia:
"Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated..."

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