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Walking to freedom: Sharing the local Underground Railroad history

One of the most famous Freedom Trails in the United States takes visitors in and around Boston to sites where revolutionaries worked to establish a new nation.

Here in Chicago, about six miles from the northern border of Homewood, is a Freedom Trail, one established for a very different reason – freedom for escaped slaves.

Volunteers with the Little Calumet River Underground Railroad Project have found evidence that a home site along the Calumet River…

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