Three Trail of Tears sites in Southern Illinois sites were added May 8 to the National Register of Historic Places. They are Campground Cumberland Church cemetery, at 50 Tunnel Lane in rural Anna ...

Two Illinois high school teachers created an interactive curriculum that traces the Trail of Tears through southern parts of their state. Stacie Tefft, one of the curriculum’s creators ...

Several graves in a cemetery near Anna, Illinois, hold Cherokee who died during their forced migration on the Trail of Tears in the 1830s. Thanks to local efforts, the cemetery now is on the ...

Can you imagine being forced to leave the land you had known all you life and ordered to travel thousands of miles on foot with small children and the elderly in harsh winter conditions to an ...

The tiny Camp Ground church cemetery includes among its dead some of the earliest settlers from this part of southern Illinois ... on the infamous Trail of Tears to what now is Oklahoma?

The Trail of Tears is the shorthand used for the series ... The Cherokee crossed into southern Illinois from Kentucky via the Ohio River in present-day Smithland. More than 1,700 Cherokee from ...

GRANTSBURG, Ill. (AP) -- A Johnson County farm is set to become the first site in southern Illinois to be designated as part of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Joe Crabb, who has lived ...

Stretching from the Deep South to Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail tells of the forced removal of most of the Cherokee people from their ancestral homeland. The trail passes ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail passes through the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois ... Cherokee originally lived in the southern Appalachian Mountains stretched ...

ALTO PASS, Ill. (AP) - Forestry workers have started selectively removing trees from the Trail of Tears State Forest in southern Illinois in hopes of restoring native plants and oak trees.