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A map of the sites of the Underground Railroad in Western Illinois, documentable based on records surviving as of 2005

This nickname of Galesburg appears in a permanent exhibition of Knox College's founding and first decades in the era of the Civil War, in the Whitcomb Heritage Center, third floor of Knox College's Alumni Hall. 

The college's online history emphasizes its founding by opponents of slavery, making Galesburg a regional center of underground railroad activity.