Mr. Stern's car struck the child, Tiamani Gittens, as she crossed Lincoln Place in Prospect Heights.
Carl Graham Fisher, an Indiana native, was the man who among other accomplishments conceived and built Miami Beach, Montauk Manor (on Long Island), the Indianapolis Speedway, and the country-crossing Lincoln and Dixie highways (which foreshadowed today's interstate highway system).
For example: the American Columbia breed was developed by crossing Lincoln rams (a long wool breed) with fine-wooled Rambouillet ewes.
MARK LINCOLN Royal Oak, Mich.
That has been the story for Geoff Cross of Lincoln, Neb., who has been unemployed for a year, having operated a travel agency that closed, largely because airlines kept reducing commissions.
But it all came to an end one morning in July, when he got stopped in Laredo, Tex. by a U.S. customs agent just as he was about to cross the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge into Mexico.
That's how I ended up sitting in the front of a Toyota RAV4, crossing the Lincoln Tunnel, a customer of Hector's Car Service.
This time six films had crossed that threshold: "Lincoln," "Argo," "Life of Pi," "Django Unchained," "Les Misérables" and "Silver Linings Playbook".
The increases would include discounts for off-peak use of the George Washington, Goethels and Bayonne Bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels.
Gail Donovan of Brookline, Mass., was rushing to buy tickets to a Mostly Mozart concert with the pianist Emanuel Ax when officials from Lincoln Center sprang the surprise: She was the one-millionth person to cross the threshold since Lincoln Center took over an atrium in a nearby apartment building three years ago.
Michael Wallis's book is divided into 13 chapters, one for each state the Lincoln Highway crossed.
