CHICAGO (WLS) -- The 27th Street station is rarely used these days and the Illinois Central Railroad is no longer in operation. But, it was along these same tracks still used by the Metra Electric ...

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There is a beautiful duality to the first Chicago ... through Illinois of enslaved people who sought better lives for themselves. We have visited the state’s Underground Railroad sites that ...

But the reason is relatively simple: the Illinois Central Railroad. Here's what it looked ... which then spread out into a delta as it approached Chicago. The city is very southern, as a result ...

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 railroad missed the county seat in Urbana by over a mile. The Illinois Central was criticized by some for missing Urbana. A letter appearing in the Chicago Press and reprinted in the Urbana ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- 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.