Barack Obama makes history, and museums chronicle it

The Old State Capitol in Springfield has a Barack Obama speech and the pen he used to sign it. The DuSable Museum of African American History will be getting paintings that adorned his Senate office.

And the Chicago History Museum has questions.

The curators and archivists at Illinois museums have been excited to find themselves in the middle of history in the making, and they have searched out ways to document the moment for future generations.