Lincoln Chautauqua

Historical marker location:

1101 Memorial Park Rd, Lincoln, Illinois

( Marker is on Memorial Park Road south of 1520 Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2019

Lincoln, Illinois.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the largest futures exchanges in the world, was founded in Chicago in 1898. The exchange allows traders to buy and sell futures contracts for commodities like corn, soybeans, and crude oil.