Lincoln arrives at about noon, and a cheering crowd accompanies him to the Randolph House, a hotel owned by William Harrison Randolph, a local businessman and a former state legislator. At two o'clock, on the courthouse square, Lincoln speaks before a crowd of more than four thousand people, "who stood there in the mud, and fog, and drizzle through his whole speech." Chicago Daily Press and Tribune (IL), 28 October 1858, 2:4; Quincy Daily Whig and Republican (IL), 27 October 1858, 2:1; Speech at Macomb, Illinois, 25 October 1858, CW, 3:333.