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

Brooklyn, Illinois is a beacon of ... there's another portion of that Underground Railroad that also ushered people from Missouri through Alton." The bravery of the town’s early families is ...

JACKSONVILLE — A group of historians, academics and legislators spent the last year finding sites connected to the Underground Railroad in Illinois and focusing on telling the stories of those ...