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

How the Erie Canal helped Underground Railroad freedom seekers escape into upstate NY and Canada. Explore the Erie Canal's role as a corridor of resistance for anti-slavery activism, the Second ...

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is one of two national historical parks keeping the abolitionist's legacy alive.

Pleasant Green Baptist Church and the site of the Greenup County Slave Revolt have both been recognized for their importance ...

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

● The Gov. Thomas Kirker Family Homestead in Adams County was a key station for the Underground Railroad in Ohio. There, ...

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

Mahoney, who also created the mural of the civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian in downtown Macomb, said the ...

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

The anti-human trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) has a new CEO for the third time in three years.

Thirty years after its founding by a small group of individuals, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is ...