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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 372
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-224
ABRAHAM LINCOLN NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
AMENDMENT ACT
APRIL 11, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1160]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1160) to include Livingston County, the city of
Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson
County, Illinois, to the Lincoln National Heritage Area, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1160 is to include Livingston County, the City
of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephen-
son County, Illinois, in the Lincoln National Heritage Area (NHA).
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Abraham Lincoln NHA was established in 2008 and pre-
serves the rich legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of
the United States. The region includes 42 counties across central
Illinois, stretching from the Indiana border to the Mississippi
River, and is one of the largest heritage areas in the nation. Presi-
dent Lincoln spent 30 years of his life in central Illinois (1831-
1861), accomplishing a body of work that still resonates today in
the state's historic sites, artifacts, landscapes, buildings, and folk-
lore.
While the 42 counties that make up the NHA provide opportuni-
ties for all people to explore Lincoln's history in Illinois, there are
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