Amanda Riggenbach, the project manager of the Tumultuous 2020 project at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, spent a year documenting COVID-19 in Illinois.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of life as we know it in early 2020, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum got to work on an oral history project intended to capture Illinoisans in-the-moment recollections of the tumult.