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

Explore Illinois’ Underground Railroad history at Beardstown’s Old Lincoln Courtroom exhibit, featuring stories, photos and ...

The historical society also will host an Underground Railroad Experience on May 10 with tickets available via EventBrite.

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

The Mifflin House in eastern York County, Pennsylvania, has been added to the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The house served as a key Underground ...

The Historic Mifflin House, a Wrightsville farmhouse that sheltered freedom seekers fleeing from slavery in the 1800s, joined ...

The Underground Railroad was a loose network of people who work together to offer shelter and aid to freedom seekers from the South, and it ran through the Susquehanna Valley. In this episode of ...

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

On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road ...