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Explore Illinois’ Underground Railroad history at Beardstown’s Old Lincoln Courtroom exhibit, featuring stories, photos and ...
Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...
Thirty years after its founding by a small group of individuals, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is ...
The Algonac-Clay Historical Society and Woman’s Life Chapter 883 will present an Underground Railroad Presentation Luncheon ...
The courageous stories of freedom seekers and the multi-racial conductors who assisted them on the Underground Railroad in Illinois are featured in a new exhibit Journey to Freedom: Illinois’ ...
The Historic Mifflin House, a Wrightsville farmhouse that sheltered freedom seekers fleeing from slavery in the 1800s, joined ...
Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...
Senator Dave Koehler (D-Peoria) introduced Senate Bill 1607 to continue the research of an Underground Railroad task force he ...
A historic Kentucky site has joined the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, which commemorates the stories of people who freed themselves or were helped ...
There’s a marker now in the 400 block of Shadeland Avenue letting people know it is the site of the Riverview House/Cleveland ...
Illinois’ Underground Railroad: Tribune series shines light ... s goals including furthering research into the trail taken by freedom seekers, establishing an online database and biographical ...