The City of Elgin will celebrate its Sesquicentennial in 2022. As we look forward to a year to commemorate, educate and celebrate in our community, we look forward to sharing retrospectives about the community. Several requests were made from 1623 to the end of the civil war for recognition of a National Day of Thanksgiving in the United States. Finally, at the urging of Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” she convinced President Abraham Lincoln to declare an annual National Day of Thanksgiving in 1863 for the last Thursday of November. This continued ...