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

The ride will 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 located in Lincoln’s day.

Participants will head 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.

The Sangamon County Historical Society and Abraham Lincoln Association have scheduled the 12th annual “Echoes of Yesterday” tours of Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, from 12 noon to 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.

People whose resting places will be featured are Mary D. Hay, daughter of Logan Hay; Melinda Jones Bunn, wife of George W. Bunn Jr.; Dr. William Jayne, who attended Lincoln’s first inauguration, and Benjamin Franklin Caldwell, a founder of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

In addition to the tours, a Historama of tables about historical organizations is planned, with entertainment by the Prairieland Dulcimers and Springfield International Folk Dancers.

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 sixth debate on Oct. 13, 1858 (ISBA Bar News, August).

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 www.knox.edu/lincolnstudies.xml.

The Peoria Historical Society and Abraham Lincoln Association will sponsor a Lincoln presidential press conference at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Pettengill-Morron House Museum.

Lincoln impersonator George Buss will answer questions in the 1868 house of Lincoln’s friend, Moses Pettengill.