A new Michigan map highlights stories of people fleeing enslavement in the mid-1800s, abolitionists who assisted them and communities that stepped up to protect people seeking freedom. The ...

MICHIGAN — Defined as a "network of people" as opposed to a literal train system, the Underground Railroad used codes and top-secret methods to help people across the country escape enslavement.

The new station would be one of the stops along a proposed Chicago-Detroit-Toronto passenger rail line ... The current train station opened in 1994 as a replacement for Michigan Central Station ...