Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. His body was brought home to Illinois by private train, where it laid in state in Chicago before being moved to Springfield for burial. Here is an article that appeared in a past newsletter of the Ridge Historical Society explaining that a Morgan Park resident by the name of Charles O. Ten Broeke built the catafalque or hearse for carrying Lincoln's coffin through the streets of Chicago. Also posted is an illustration from the May 20, 1865 Harper's Weekly (magazine), depicting the scene. And the last two pictures are of the house Ten Broeke lived in, from his time and the present.