Front:
CHARLES F. CARPENTIER
SECRETARY OF STATE
LLLINOIS- Lond of Lincoln
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Twenty-one years of construction were required
for completion of Illinois' Capitol Building. The
structure is one of the out-standing examples of public
building architecture of the post-Civil War period.
Ground was broken on March 11, 1868; the corner-
stone laying took place on October 5, 1868; the build-
ing was first occupied in 1876, and construction work
was finished in 1889.
Charles F. Carpentier, Illinois' 29th Secretary of
State, was inaugurated on January 12, 1953.
ILL. 84067
THADES ON COUNCIL
