Barry Cloyd is an award winning songwriter as well as a full-time touring musician with a special love for the history and music of our own Midwest. This newly commissioned program begins with a whirlwind trip back through time to the early days of the origins of our State and where it's name came from, the Illiniwek Nation of Native Americans. Some of the "stops along the way" include Abraham Lincoln's appearance in Illinois, The Black Hawk War, the creation of the Illinois & Mi