Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...

The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

A 366-unit affordable apartment development called Trinity Square, estimated to cost $157 million, is planned for the South ...

Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...

Rita Daniels learned at 9 that she is the great-great-great-grandniece of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who led countless enslaved Africans to freedom through the Underground Railroad. It was a ...

Few stories in American history combine as much suspense, adventure and moral righteousness as the Underground Railroad—the far-flung system of safe houses established to enable between 50,000 ...

Rabbi Tamar Manasseh chose to host a Seder at a South Side church, which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad, as a ...

Information about Harriet Tubman has been restored to a National Park Service website about the Underground Railroad. The National Park Service said Monday that a portrait and a quote from Tubman ...

This historic marker is located at the second stop of the Upper Darby Underground Railroad Tour. The Riverview House was the ...