“By any means necessary” was no overstatement when it came to the life-or-death flight to freedom through Illinois ... Railroad. John and Eliza Little walked hundreds of miles from Cairo ...

And many, in due course, became history makers in their own right. With more than 50 sites on our map of Illinois’ Underground Railroad, it would be quite challenging to make the 1,100-mile ...

Railroad history in Illinois began in Meredosia in 1838. The Northern Cross was the first railroad west of the Allegheny Mountains and North of the Ohio River to use a steam locomotive.

CAIRO, IL. (WSIL) -- Two sites in southern Illinois have been added ... The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom aims to preserve the history of resistance to slavery.

The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force on Tuesday presented its ongoing findings on the important role Illinois played in the history of helping slaves reach freedom. The Underground ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois task force investigating the state’s ties with the Underground Railroad has presented ... education about our country’s history of racism, Illinois remains ...

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - How much do you know about the history of the Underground Railroad? When the Civil War ended, many freedom seekers made their way up north to Illinois through the Underground ...

SPRINGFIELD — A task force created by a 2023 law to explore ways chronicle Illinois’ Underground Railroad history announced its findings last week, recommending the state create a commission ...