title: Illinois Historic Preservation Division
text: The Illinois Historic Preservation Division, formerly Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.  It is tasked with the duty of maintaining State-owned historic sites, and maximizing their educational and recreational value to visitors or on-line users.  In addition, it manages the process for applications within the state for additions to the National Register of Historic Places.
  
  History of agency
  The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) was created by State law in July 1985.  What was the agency's oldest bureau, the Illinois State Historical Library, was created in 1889, but the origins of the agency could be said to date back to the state's involvement in building and caring for the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.
  
  During the 20th century, the state of Illinois acquired and restored a wide variety of historic properties throughout the state.  One key asset, Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site in Menard County, a reconstruction of a village where Abraham Lincoln lived in the 1830s, was established in the 1930s. The agency also administers the Cahokia World Heritage Site which includes the largest pre-columbian construction in the Americas north of Mexico.
  
  The IHPA continued to grow after its creation in 1985, largely because of continued public interest in Lincoln as the bicentennial of his birth approached in 2009.  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM), also in Springfield, Illinois, was dedicated in 2005.  Unlike most presidential libraries, the Lincoln Library is state-owned.
  
  The proposed 2016 budget of Governor Bruce Rauner sought to eliminate the agency, assigning its duties to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Opponents of the move claimed that the Commerce Department had neither the expertise nor the interest to carry out the agency's functions and that any savings from the agency's 2015 budget of $15 million would be minimal.
  
  In 2017, the Agency was split, with the historic preservation and site management duties falling to a reorganized Division within the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (which manages State Parks and other resources), and the Library (ALPLM) becoming an independent agency.
  
  List of Illinois State Historic Sites
  The following is an alphabetical listing of the more than 50 Illinois State Historic Sites that are under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Historic Preservation Division:
  
  Albany Mounds State Historic Site, Whiteside County
  Apple River Fort State Historic Site, Jo Daviess County
  Bishop Hill State Historic Site, Henry County
  Black Hawk State Historic Site, Rock Island County
  Bryant Cottage State Historic Site, Piatt County
  Buel House, Pope County
  Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site, St. Clair County
  Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Madison County and St. Clair County
  Campbell's Island State Memorial, Rock Island County
  Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, Knox County
  Crenshaw House, Gallatin County
  Dana–Thomas House State Historic Site, Sangamon County
  David Davis Mansion State Historic Site, McLean County
  Douglas Tomb State Historic Site, Cook County
  Fort de Chartres State Historic Site, Randolph County
  Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site, Randolph County
  Governor Bond State Memorial, Randolph County
  Governor Coles State Memorial, Madison County
  Governor Horner State Memorial, Cook County
  Governor Small Memorial and Park, Kankakee County
  Grand Village of the Illinois, LaSalle County (not open to the public)
  Halfway Tavern, Marion County
  Hofmann Tower, Cook County
  Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Sangamon County
   Purple Heart Memorial (Illinois)
  Jarrot Mansion State Historic Site, St. Clair County
  Jubilee College State Historic Site, Peoria County
  Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial, Randolph County
  Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site, Massac County
  Korean War Memorial (Illinois), Sangamon County
  Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, Madison County
  Lincoln–Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site, Sangamon County
  Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site (including the Reuben Moore Home), Coles County
  Lincoln Monument, Lee County
  Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, Sangamon County
  Lincoln Trail State Memorial, Lawrence County
  Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, Menard County
  Lovejoy State Memorial, Madison County
  Martin–Boismenue House, St. Clair County
  Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site, Woodford County
  Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site, Logan County
  Norwegian Settlers Memorial, LaSalle County
  Old Market House State Historic Site, Jo Daviess County
  Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Sangamon County
  Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site, Randolph County
  Postville Courthouse State Historic Site, Logan County
  Pullman Site, including:
  Hotel Florence, Cook County
  Rose Hotel, Hardin County
  Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site, Gallatin County
  U.S. Grant Home State Historic Site, Jo Daviess County
  Vachel Lindsay Home, Sangamon County
  Vandalia State House State Historic Site, Fayette County
  Washburne House State Historic Site, Jo Daviess County
  Wild Bill Hickok Memorial, LaSalle County
  World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial, Sangamon County
  
  In addition to those above administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Division, other historic sites operated by Illinois state agencies include:
  Dickson Mounds, operated by Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)
  Fort Massac State Park, operated by IDNR
  Starved Rock State Park, operated by IDNR
  
  NRHP multiple property submissions
  
  This List of NRHP Multiple Property Submission in Illinois are properties not part of a historic district but are, rather, listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places after a collective nomination with other similar properties, called a Multiple Property Submission.
  
   American Woman's League Chapter Houses Thematic Resources
   Archaeological Sites of Starved Rock State Park
   Architectural and Historic Resources of Vermont, Illinois, Multiple Property Submission
   Black Metropolis Thematic Resources
   Caught in the Middle; the Civil War on the Lower Ohio River
   Civil War Era National Cemeteries
   Coles County Highway Bridges Over the Embarras River Thematic Resources
   Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana-Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois Multiple Property Submission
   Highway Bridges in Iowa 1868-1945
   Historic and Historical Archaeological Resources of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
   Historic and Architectural Resources of Route 66 Through Illinois
   Historic Fairgrounds in Illinois Multiple Property Submission
   Historic Resources of Grafton, Illinois, ca. 1830-1943, Multiple Property Submission
   Historic Resources of Highland Park Multiple Resource Area
   Historic Resources of Maywood, Illinois, Multiple Property Submission
   Historic Resources of the Chicago Park District Multiple Property Submission
   Hyde Park Apartment Hotels Thematic Resources
   Illinois Carnegie Libraries Multiple Property Submission
   Illinois State Park Lodges and Cabins Thematic Resources
   Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County Thematic Resources
   Motor Row, Chicago, Illinois
   Native American Rock Art Sites of Illinois Multiple Property Submission
   Round Barns in Illinois Thematic Resources
   Suburban Apartment Buildings in Evanston Thematic Resources
   University of Illinois Buildings by Nathan Clifford Ricker Thematic Resources
   University of Illinois Buildings Designed by Charles A. Platt
  
  References
  
  External links
  
  History of Illinois
  
  Historic Preservation
  State history organizations of the United States
  Government agencies established in 1985
  1985 establishments in Illinois