Blackstone Hotel

Historical marker location:

66 East Balboa Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

( Marker is on East Balboa Avenue near South Michigan Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1998

Marshall & Fox, architects. 1910.

Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous presidents in U.S. history, spent much of his early political career in Illinois. He served in the Illinois state legislature and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1846.