Experience the power of the nation’s founding words in a historic setting.

Community members will recite the Declaration with context given by historians.

Living historians will be on hand to discuss local life in the 1770s.

Visitors may then tour the Old Cahokia Courthouse SHS (built c. 1740), a place which witnessed important events in 1776 and beyond.

Event co-sponsored by:
St. Clair County Historical Society
Sons of the American Revolution, Lewis & Clark Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution, Belleville Chapter
Historic Sites Division, Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources