{"id":16326,"date":"2025-08-20T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=16326"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:37:01","slug":"songs-of-the-illinois-freedom-road","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/calendar\/16326-songs-of-the-illinois-freedom-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs Of The Illinois Freedom Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-tribe_events pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Songs of the Illinois Freedom Road<\/strong> is the powerful new musical performance featuring the songs, stories, and struggles of the Illinois Underground Railroad.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t miss this performance at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site&#8217;s Visitor Center Auditorium<\/span>\u00a0on Saturday, August 23, at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The show, with award-winning folk musician Chris Vallillo, features rare first-person accounts of freedom seekers who passed through Illinois.\u00a0 Highlighted stories include John and Mary Little, who traveled on foot 140 miles to Chicago, and George Burroughs, a black Canadian who worked on the Illinois Central Railroad where he helped smuggle escapees to freedom.\u00a0 Vallillo extensively researched the subject using primary source documents such as the 1857 Slave Narratives of Canada and the WPA Slave Narratives as well as the most recent scholarship on the subject.\u00a0 Vallillo combines these powerful stories with eleven historic songs that were sung by the enslaved to inspire and share knowledge among themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This event is partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.<\/p>\n<p><em>Journey to Freedom: Illinois&#8217; Underground Railroad<\/em> is a new temporary exhibit from Looking for Lincoln; check it out in the Sargent Gallery of the Visitor Center!<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site<\/span> is located at 402 South Lincoln Highway Road, Lerna, IL\u00a0 62440.\u00a0 For more information call 217-345-1845, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnlogcabin.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lincolnlogcabin.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs of the Illinois Freedom Road is the powerful new musical performance featuring the songs, stories, and struggles of the Illinois Underground Railroad.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t miss this performance at the Lincoln [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[40],"class_list":["post-16326","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-calendar","cat_community-calendar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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