Historical Marker
Mississippian
Historical marker location:
1500 South 5th Street, Quincy, Illinois
( Marker is on Indian Mounds Park, 0.1 miles west of South 5th Street, on the right when traveling west.)
The First Farmers. AD 1000-1300.
The first televised presidential debate in history was held in Illinois in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The debate was held at the studios of CBS in Chicago and was watched by an estimated 70 million people.