Where else did the Lincolns sleep in the suburbs?

Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln spent a lot of time traveling around Illinois, including many trips to the Chicago area. Here are a few of the places where Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, are believed to have rested their heads:

• Elijah Ferry, an attorney friend of Lincoln, hosted him at his home on Julian Street in Waukegan while Lincoln was in town to give a speech in April 1850. The bed in which the future president slept is displayed at the Waukegan History Museum and the house was named a landmark in 2015.

• While representing law client Charles Hoyt of Aurora, Lincoln visited Hoyt's store on River Street and stayed at the Wilder House hotel on North River Street, John Jaros, executive director of the Aurora Historical Society, told the Daily Herald.

• After Lincoln's death, his wife frequented the Howard House hotel in St. Charles, where she registered as Mrs. May and sought spiritual guidance from Caroline Howard, a medium. The house at 123 S. Third St. was granted landmark status by the city of St. Charles and now is used as apartments.

• Years later, Mrs. Lincoln spent a summer at a Bellevue Place, then a mental sanitarium in Batavia. Grieving the loss of her family - three sons also had died by that time - she was committed to the home by her only surviving son but won her freedom Sept. 11, 1875, and went to live with her sister in Springfield. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the building now is used as apartments. Tokens of her stay at the sanitarium are on display at the Batavia Depot Museum.