Just off Lawrence Avenue, in an area north of Holcom Sports Complex, one building stands out from the mostly residential ...
The Freedom Corridor conference at Illinois College focuses on preserving and recognizing Underground Railroad sites across ...
In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...
The railroad improvement project at North Nicholson Avenue in Long Beach is taking longer than expected. Long Beach Mayor ...
In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad.The Lewelling Quaker ...
With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad, a term that “came along as an attempt to ...
Historian and author Glennette Turner shares insight into the important role Illinois abolitionists played in working with ...
Area residents will have a chance to walk in the footsteps of 19th century freedom seekers from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 26.