The webpage used to start with articles about the efforts of enslaved people to free themselves and how the Underground Railroad, a series of secret routes and safe houses, came to be. The page ...

Instead, the new language describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most ... and it was replaced by a series of photos of postage stamps that depict her face alongside that of other ...

On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the ...

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.

A large image of and a quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad ... has been swapped with a series of five commemorative ...

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