CARL SANDBURG HISTORIC SITE

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, poet, Lincoln biographer, folk singer and one-time hobo, Carl Sandburg left an indelible mark on Illinois and America. View Sandburg's birthplace, tour the Visitors' Center and pay your respects in the perennial garden where the author's ashes are buried beneath Remembrance Rock.

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) wrote poetry, biography, autobiography, fiction and newspaper articles. He was a lecturer and folk-singer as well. His newspaper coverage of social unrest in 1919 resulted in a book called The Chicago Race Riots. The stories he invented for his three daughters became The Rootabaga Stories. When he was 70 he published his first and only novel, Remembrance Rock.