Sholom in Springfield, Illinois. Legacies Horner is interred at Zion Gardens Cemetery in the Mt. Mayriv section, a Jewish cemetery in the Dunning neighborhood of Chicago. A Jewish summer camp in Ingleside, a suburb of Chicago, is named Camp Henry Horner after him. Horner, a lifelong bachelor, collected memorabilia related to Abraham Lincoln and bequeathed it to the people of Illinois. The Horner Collection is now stored and partly displayed in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Horner Park, located in Chicago, is a facility bordered by Montrose Avenue to the north, Irving Park Road to the south, California Avenue to the west, and the north branch of the Chicago River to the east. The Governor Horner State Memorial is located in Horner Park. The Chicago Housing Authority built the Henry Horner Homes, a public housing project on Chicago's near–west side; named in honor of Governor Horner in 1957. Books (1969) Thomas B. Littlewood, Horner of Illinois. Northwestern University Press. (2007) Charles J. Masters, Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, And The Great Depression. Southern Illinois University Press. . References External links Henry Horner Collection at the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum 1878 births 1940 deaths Democratic Party governors of Illinois Illinois state court judges Jewish American state governors of the United States Politicians from Chicago University of Chicago alumni Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni