Former US Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) resigned as chair of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum April 5, just days after federal prosecutors said he “willfully” failed to disclose a $50,000 loan from a foreign national while serving as Secretary of Transportation in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, who appointed LaHood to the Springfield museum’s post in September 2019, accepted the former Peoria congressman’s resignation.