Future events being planned

Communities and institutions across the state are beginning to schedule special events to commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth on Feb. 12, 1809.

Circuit bike ride

The Champaign County Lincoln Bicentennial Committee will conduct a 37-mile bicycle tour, from Urbana to Danville, on Sunday, Sept. 28, to simulate Lincoln’s horse-back journeys along the circuit.

The event is scheduled to begin at the Cattle Bank at First Street and University Avenue in Urbana, and head east to the County Courthouse located where the old courthouse was in Lincoln’s day.

From there, it’s east on Main Street, south to Washington, and on to Danville along Route 150 and an old state road that parallels it. Several turnaround points will allow riders to return without covering all 37 miles.

Knox debate site

The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center in Galesburg will conduct its 23rd annual Lincoln Colloquium on Sunday, Oct. 12, at the site where Lincoln and Douglas held their fifth debate on Oct. 7, 1858.

The topic is “The Lincoln Douglas Debates.” Speakers include author Garry Wills, James M. McPherson, Allen C. Guelzo, David Zarefsky and Rodney O. Davis.

Call (309) 341-7158 for information or access http://www.knox.edu/lincolnstudies.xml.

Symphony tribute

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will present a Lincoln Bicentennial Tribute program at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in Symphony Center, Chicago.

The performance includes selections from “Abraham Lincoln” by Robert Russell Bennett, the Roy Harris Symphony No. 6 (Gettysburg), Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

Access http://www.cso.org for details.

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