CHICAGO — With more than 50 sites on our map of Illinois’ Underground Railroad, it would be quite challenging to make the 1,100-mile round trip in a single vacation.
With more than 50 sites on our map of Illinois’ Underground Railroad, it would be quite challenging to make the 1,100-mile round trip in a single vacation. But as September is International Underground Railroad Month, if you’ve got a few days free, plan a weekender to visit the places where freedom seekers took refuge in their escapes from enslavement and get to know the stories of how they .
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If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge from slave catchers on their way to a life out of bondage. “What came to be called the Underground Railroad were the networks of assistance that emerged in response to the reality that freedom seekers .