The first of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln–Douglas_debates" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lincoln–Douglas debates">Lincoln–Douglas debates</a> is held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa,_Illinois" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottawa, Illinois">Ottawa, Illinois</a>.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_21#cite_note-8" id="mwnA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnQ">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate1.htm" id="mwBxY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois."</a> <i id="mwBxc">NPS.gov</i>.  21 August 2019.</span>