Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania paid Lincoln homage. On the night run to Indianapolis, bonfires lit up the route, and mute crowds stood in the rain as the train rolled by. In Chicago, thousands of Lincoln’s fellow Illinoisians—columns of officials, ordinary citizens, Ellsworth Zouaves, immigrants, carpenters, Chicago actors, Jews, Negroes, and ten thousand schoolchildren wearing black armbands—all marched with the coffin in final tribute. From Chicago the train ran south across the prairies, taking Lincoln and Willie home now, home at last to Springfield.
