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By Preservation Chicago

December 31, 2023

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ae9eac020ecd425b5f46ad09d8a4bcda_ufzpjo — Dedication of the Illinois Historical Marker at the Jan and Aagje Ton Farm Underground Railroad Site, September 24, 2022. From left to right, Ward Miller, Preservation Chicago; Cheryl Johnson, People for Community Recovery-PCR; Lt. Governor Julia Stratton, State of Illinois; Tom Shephard, Southeast Chicago Historical Society. Photo Credit: Ward Miller / Preservation Chicago

Landmarks: A trail that starts in Chicago could ‘connect the dots’ of a powerful episode in African American history, Paul Eisenberg, Daily Southtown, 10/1/23
Vintage Chicago Tribune: An 1874 Chicago reunion of abolitionists hailed the heroics of the Underground Railroad, Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 10/16/22
Underground Railroad Site In Chicago Will Be Honored At Historic Dedication Ceremony Saturday; Jan and Aagje Ton Farm on the Southeast Side once provided a safe harbor to people who had been enslaved but escaped to freedom, Maia McDonald, Block Club Chicago, 9/21/22
Historical marker unveiled during ceremony marking Underground Railroad site on Chicago’s Far South Side, Stephanie Casanova, Chicago Tribune, 9/25/22

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