Globe embarks for Chicago, give or take one day. Distance to Chicago is 1047 miles, and can be covered in 60 hours. That is "record" time, by shortest distance, and Globe goes out of its way to Milwaukee.St. Louis Gazette, 9 July 1839.

[Voyage inspires Lincoln to thoughts about how lake boats could be lifted over shoals. In subsequent weeks, in leisure time after election, he designs buoy. [See also March 10, 1848, and May 22, 1849.]Application for Patent on an Improved Method of Lifting Vessels over Shoals, 10 March 1849, CW, 2:32-36.]

Globe stops en route to Chicago.ISLA—Files.

Lincoln registers at Sherman House. Chicago Journal, 6 October 1848; Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln, 1:477.

Whig rally is held at courthouse in evening with Lincoln principal speaker. Although called on six hours' notice, crowd is so large meeting adjourns to public square. Lincoln speaks for two hours. Chicago Journal (October 6, 1848, October 7, 1848) describes his speech as "one of the very best we have heard or read, since the opening of the campaign." S. A. Hurlbut follows Lincoln.Speech at Chicago, Illinois, 6 October 1848, CW, 2:11.

Lincoln and Dr. A. G. Henry address Whig meeting at one o'clock.Illinois Journal, 27 October 1848.