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Polish President Visits Central IL

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SPRINGFIELD, IL- A very high profile visitor toured the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Friday.

Former Polish president and Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa spent about an hour at the museum.

Walesa received the Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation's Leadership Prize during a ceremony in Chicago Thursday night.

Walesa has been working with the Lincoln Library and Museum and three other presidential libraries to help plan for a possible presidential library of his own in Poland.

Walesa served as President of Poland from 1990 until 1995 and was the first democratically elected leader in Polish postwar history.

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