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The Wigwam Site

The candidate sent an order, and his own men laughed at it.

Collection: Chicago · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Crowds outside the Wigwam in Chicago, 1860
Crowds outside the Wigwam in Chicago, 1860 · Alexander Hessler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Seven words, as Henry Whitney remembered them, came from Springfield in May 1860, telling Abraham Lincoln's own managers here in Chicago what they must not do. “Make no contracts that will bind me.” On this corner stood the Wigwam, a wooden hall put up in just over a month to hold ten thousand people. The Republicans were choosing a candidate. William Seward of New York was ahead.

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Visiting

West Lake Street at North Wacker Drive. Nothing of the hall survives. There is only a plaque on a public corner, free to see at any time.

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