Underground Railroad Program
Community Hall (Volunteer Fire Department) Next to Fire Department, Ogden Dunes, IN, United StatesDr. Larry McClellan: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Illinois and Northwest Indiana In the decades before the Civil War, more than 4500 enslaved people escaping from the South traveled across Illinois, with many coming to and through the Chicago region. With maps and images, we explore their stories and those of the people who responded to them and became the Underground Railroad. After graduate work at the University of Chicago, in 1970, Larry helped create Governors State University south of Chicago and served there for 30 years. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology [...]
