“People Create Memories, Not Things” - Sir Rocco Forte

Eastern Illinois University’s Doudna Fine Arts Center is a cultural beacon for all of central Illinois. Designed by Antoine Predock, the building stands as a stunning example of modern architecture, uniting form and function, and provides a state-of-the-art home to EIU’s School of the Arts (comprising the Departments of Art + Design, Music, and Theatre).   

Doudna Events Calendar | Doudna Fine Arts Center | Eastern Illinois University 

Come to Kiwanis Park, Daum Amphitheater, to enjoy these Concerts and Theatre in the Park! Bring a lawn chair or blanket. 

Concerts in the Park 

The Tarble Arts Center is the teaching museum on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Annual program of rotating exhibitions that provide experiential encounters with art of international significance and local relevance.

 Tarble Arts Center | Eastern Illinois University 

Visit Lake Charleston for birdwatching, kayaking, fishing, biking, picnicking, and playing! Lake Charleston's trails connect to Sister City Park, Lakeview Park, and Woodyard Park. Over 9 miles of trails to hike and mountain bike!   

Lake Charleston 

 The Urban Butterfly Initiative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community service organization that uses butterflies as ambassadors to nature, providing an approachable, fascinating, and beautiful link between people and the environment.

Butterfly Habitat & Education | Illinois | Urban Butterfly Initiative 

 Grand Prairie Friends is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit, conservation organization and land trust composed of people from many walks of life who share a commitment to preserve and restore natural areas in east-central Illinois. 

Events | GrandPrairieFriends 

For almost 170 years, this building, one of the oldest structures in Coles County, has been a familiar land-mark. The Five Mile House is stucco-over-brick, two room building with its later added kitchen, sits on a corner lot, its front doors facing south. Check out the webpage for events and programs!

Five Mile House 

Visit this first-class facility located on the site of the 1858 Charleston, IL Lincoln-Douglas debate. Take a self-guided tour retracing the seven senatorial debates of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. 

Welcome to Charleston, Illinois 

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, part of the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area, preserves the 19th-century home of Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and step-mother of our 16th president.

Lincoln Log Cabin