Tarbutton and the railroad promise at least 12 new jobs with salaries offering a little better than five times the local per capita annual income of $18,000, about $90,000 a year.

We wanted to spotlight Underground Railroad sites in Illinois, explore the histories surrounding them and provide travel details, ... In sharing that material, his family tree become more real.

The Kerr family's not sure when he began his career, but given that he was 59 when he died, they figure he'd probably been on trains for at least 30 years. He would be the beginning of quite a ...