“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

a veteran historian of Black history in the Underground Railroad port of Alton, Illinois. “I got hooked,” Woodson-Wilson said, “and I haven’t stopped since.” Woodson-Wilson wrote the ...

(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 ...

"This is an opportunity to tell the complete and authentic story of the Underground Railroad and Illinois' contribution to this important piece of history," Turner said. "So we will be looking at ...