Lobbying days in Springfield happen every year in which interest groups throng to the state capitol to push for certain legislation. As part of GLT's joint project with the McLean County Museum of History, we take you back more than a century to hear what was an important issue of 1909. This McHistory starts with a Chicago and Alton Railroad Trip. Barbara Egger married the much older John Brown Lennon of Bloomington, a major figure in American Labor History. He was the National Treasurer of the