UPDATED: March 12, 2024 at 11:56 AM CDT “By any means necessary” was no overstatement when it came to the life-or-death flight to freedom through Illinois’ Underground Railroad.

So many of the best stories start with a humdrum, everyday experience. For Danville native and author Lee Anthony Cooper, the stories in his new book ”Tails from the Tracks” began while he rode trains ...

It was photographed June 21, 2023. Second Reading Book Shop at 16 E. Broadway in Alton, Illinois, photographed June 22, 2023, has a connection to the Underground Railroad.

DECATUR - To say that trains and Dale Jenkins are inseparable is probably an understatement. After signing books during the Decatur Train Fair last weekend, the Decatur man/Springfield transplant ...

There could be at least 200 sites in Illinois that are part of the network. A task force created by a 2023 law to explore ways chronicle Illinois’ Underground Railroad history announced its ...

The South Water freight depot of Illinois Central Railroad in 1943. The railroad was basically worth "scrap value," Harrison said. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, he said, the owners wanted to sell it.

The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force, created last year via a bill passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, aims to connect current projects and new ...