Abolitionists In Illinois, Freedom Trails: Two Legacies of Hope

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East St. Louis Race Riot Memorial
July 1-2, 2005
July 1-2, 2005; East St. Louis and St. Louis communities come together to lay to rest the ancestors that suffered the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riots.

Endangered Underground Railroad Sites
The Illinois preservation Agency estimates some five hundred properties in Illinois are associated with the Underground railroad..many are in poor condition...

Governor Touts Tourism
Gov. Blagojevish brings opportunity Returns to Southwestern Illinois. It consists of 5 primary goals to address economic and workforce development.

	Abolitionists In Illinois Both Black and White conductors and Stationmasters ran the lines of the UGRR in Illinois. From African American George Burroughs in Cairo who spirited away passengers on the Illinois Central Rail Road to security man, Allen Pinkerton in Chicago, the movement was adequately manned in this state.

Wilbert Siebert provides a partial list of Abolitionists in Illinois categorized by counties.

Tazewell
Dillon, Ellis.
Holland.
Holton.
Mathews.
Mickle.
Phillips.
Woodron, Samuel.
Vermilion
Harper.
Washington
Henry, John.
McClurken, John.
Wayne
Ambler.
Whiteside
Hamilton, Dea.
Millikin, Dea.
Will
Beach, Dea.
Cushing, Dea.
Denny, Allen.
Goodhue.
Haven, Samuel.
Stewart, Col. Peter
Woodford
Bayne, James G.
Drennan, Thomas.
Kern, George.
McCoy, John.
Morse, Joseph T.
Morse, Levi P.
Morse, Dea. Mark.
Morse, Parker, Jr.
Morse, Captain Parker.
Piper, James A.
Ranney, James.
Whitemire, Dr. James.
Work, James.
Work, Samuel.
Miscellaneous
Turner, Asa.
Lukins.
*The names of African American operators, but not all are correctly noted Also operators have been identified in other counties such as Greene are not on this list..Freedom Trails features the names of several Abolitionists on our UGRR quilt and will introduce you to others in our next update.