Abraham Lincoln Statue

"'The life in your years count more than the years in your life.'-Abraham Lincoln""'it makes me wonder if people walked through Grant Park for 2 decades wondering what was under the tarp. More importantly, what was Honest Abe hiding under there for so long?'"The Abraham Lincoln Statue is a monument in Dockland, Illinois.

History
It took 12 years for sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create this stoic statue of Abe. Weird that it took another 20 years for it to be finally revealed in 1926.

Trivia

 * Abraham Lincoln lived 1809 to 1865.
 * 16th president of the US 1861 to 1865.
 * A Republican, his election to the presidency on an anti-slavery platform helped to precipitate the Civil War, which was fought during his administration.
 * He was assassinated shortly after the war ended and before he could fulfill his campaign promise to reconcile the North and the South.
 * He was noted for his succinct, eloquent speeches, including the Gettysburg Address of 1863.