Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...

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

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who traveled on foot 140 miles to Chicago, and George Burroughs, a black Canadian who worked on the Illinois Central Railroad where he helped smuggle escapees to freedom. For more information on ...

Lovelock, Christopher H. "Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: Interview with Harry J. Bruce, Chairman and CEO, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 886-517, November 1985.