Senator Dave Koehler (D-Peoria) introduced Senate Bill 1607 to continue the research of an Underground Railroad task force he ...

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

Mary Liz Stewart, who founded the Underground Railroad center with her husband, Paul, in the 1990s, said the idea for the museum project came when she was looking for quotes by Black Americans for a ...

That ranges from a webpage highlighting baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson’s military service to the National Park Service removing content about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Both ...

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.

Leslie Pielack has been surprised at the numbers of people who have visited a traveling exhibit highlighting Oakland County connections to the Underground Railroad. “It’s unbelievably popular ...

The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after garnering outrage over its removal. In February, a photo and ...

WASHINGTON — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash ...

WASHINGTON — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash ...

By Clarissa-Jan Lim The National Park Service has restored a page on its website about the Underground Railroad after sustaining backlash over its erasure of Harriet Tubman’s central role in the ...