This is what I am learning from reading the Kingdom of Nauvoo.
This is a history book and the author is determined to make it the definitive edition of that period. If you are also interested in that subject (and have plenty of time to read) this is the book for you.
Illinois at that time was the residence of Abraham Lincoln, s successful railroad lawyer, who later (to everyone's surprise) became President during the Civil War. He was assinated, and his body reyurned to Springfield to be buried.
In Western Illinois, on the Missippi River, were the Mormons, and not much else. They made frequent trips to the Nation's capital, to be reembursed fot the injustices they had recieved in Missouri, but did not seem aware of the Easrern part of their own State. Their leader, Joseph Smith, was also assinated. and the rest of them left the country.
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