this is not to suggest that fugitive slaves were home free once they arrived in western illinois. many freedom seekers never made contact with underground railroad agents. these fugitives made their way to freedom alone, depending on their own wit, guile, and sheer determination. still others were tracked down and returned to bondage. slaveowners hired detectives or full-time slave trackers to go after escapees. many trackers used what were called negro dogs, specifically trained to hunt down runaway slaves. these vicious dogs could tear a slave to pieces if not restrained. bounty hunters were also quick to turn in a runaway slave for handsome rewards. owen lovejoy, unlike most underground railroad operators, was remarkably open about his ugrr involvement. lovejoy made virtually no attempt to hide what he was up to. in addition, lovejoy advocated the use of violent tactics. one of his daughters, ida, recalled that in the late 1850s when a group of runaway slaves pulled up to the lovejoy homestead, lovejoy asked them if they had any weapons. they said they only had clubs. he told t

founded by abolitionist george washington gale who established the college on the prairie in western illinois. the school became an antislavery strong hold. the town became the most noted abolitionist underground railroad community in down state illinois. before owen lovejoy left jacksonville, however, a friend suggested to him that he had a bit farther north to princeton. the congregation in that community had very poor health. the community was looking for a new minister. lovejoy decided to go to princeton and that decision put into motion a series of events that culminated in owen lovejoy becoming the most famous underground railroad operator in illinois and the most famous across the north. when lovejoy arrived in princeton he was made the temporary minister of the church but within a year he was appointed as the church's regular pastor at a salary of $600 a year which was a with rather good salary in illinois. when he arrived in princeton he was introduced to a handful of people with the cause. another brother of theirs was a famous poet william bryant who resided in the east. lovejoy wa

. >> we're going to win down state, central illinois, western illinois. servetives and republicans populate. and we're happy about that. >> reporter: also absent from illinois, newt gingrich. he's focusing his attention in the conservative south where he's done best. he is channelling all his campaign resources into saturday's primary in louisiana, and taking on his toughest competition there. santorum. >> me lost pennsylvania by the largest message for any in the state. is that really the background to try to take on president obama? >> reporter: ron paul is on the west coast meeting with supporters in california, still vowing to stay in the race. with the republican convention still five months away, the race has a long way to g. >>> temperatures are pretty mild. 54 in san francisco, 54 in san jose and livermore, 55 in concord, and 53 in santa rosa. let's get a look outside on satellite and radar picture, still seeing rain up to the north. this has remained fairly stationary throughout the day, but we're going to see a better chance of light showers into

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.y won the summit conference title 52-50 and going to the ncaa tournament for the first time ever. >> that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." today is the day we have been waiting for on the east coast after a little cold spell. a beautiful warm-up today. temperatures getting into the 60s from d.c. to baltimore, philly to new york and boston not bad in the 50s. we will see some rain on the front in the midwest. especially later on today. tap some of the moisture out of the gulf and it looks like the rain threat will remain here especially in texas and areas of arkansas and tennessee in the days ahead. >>> if you're watching us on lex 18 in lexington, kentucky see a collection of chine

if you look at what does clinton happen tonight, we're going to win central and western illinois. we are happy about the delegates where glenn to get, too. [cheers and applause] we wanted to come here tonight back to pennsylvania, back to a favored place of mine. it is the town of gettysburg. [cheers and applause] there are so many memories that come to mind where abraham lincoln finished to get his address. he think about the elections of our past. i have gone around this country of the basque country. they said this is the most important election since 1816. -- 1860. it is about whether these united states, which was it was mostly referred to, would become the united states. it to be a country balance together to build a great and powerful nation. it is a concept that we were bred with. i said throughout the course of this campaign that while other issues are important, joblessness, national security concerns, a family, all of these issues are important. the foundation of this place, the cause of what we're feeling in the economy and budget crisis. it all boils down to one word

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.riffin callahan knocked down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the conference summit title 52-50. that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." the wild, windy weather of yesterday in southern california, portions of arizona and throughout southern nevada is a thing of the past. that storm is leaving us. in its wake, definitely a chillier air mass. highs today only in phoenix of 63. 55 in vegas. 65 in l.a. as we go to thursday's forecast, that's when we're going to be watching things improving. we should see warmer weather eventually, especially areas of the northwest. >>> if you're watching on knbc 4 in los angeles, california, in nearby hollywood, see the props and costumes

the equates will wind down state in central illinois and western illinois and the areas the conservatives and republicans populate simmer very happy but that. >>> candace allows staff their kids into louisiana's primary on saturday. a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake damage 7800 homes and caused tall buildings to sway in mexico it struck nearly 12 hours ago in the southern part of the country about 300 mi. south of mexico city. amazingly enough no reports of any deaths even after a magnitude five aftershock was felt in the capital city of mexico city equate cents a pedestrian bridge crashing down onto a minibus that was empty at the time and was hurt. did we tell the sudden loss of people running along so we joins and went to the front entrance we feel things when back-and-forth looked at the trees of the trees moving and said this is an earthquake. >>> side of president obama's tallest held his daughter melia is vacationing in mexico with a school group the let us says she is safe and was never in any danger. the airwaves knew of tonight in the fight against cancer fresh evidence shows ta

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a tourney bid. griffin callahan knocks down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the summit conference title, 52-50. they're going to the ncaa tournament for first time ever. that's your "first look" at sports. i'm fred roggin. >>> for another look at the weather here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning. that's what we want to see. >> we're excited. the temperatures are going up. we like to show the temperature change map going up instead of down. albany, new york is 20 degrees warmer right now than what we were talking about yesterday morning, in areas like hartford and new york. d.c. about ten. buffalo, 30 degrees warmer this morning than you were at this time yesterday. an incredible warmup has occurred, even during the overnight hours. buffalo, 47 degrees. you're actually warmer right now than d.c. this afternoon will be just great from buffalo to everywhere else. temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, pretty widespread out there. grab

one kept a wonderful diary of his life living in western illinois. and it's a real piece of gold for a person that does the kind of research that you and i take part in. and in the diary heeludes to hard numbers. he says i aided a fugitive slave today making 21 # in number of those who passed through the region since i have lived here. i probably would be better off asking you if you want to answer your own question but i am leery on making an estimate on those numbers. i'll say this, as you well know, it is one of the things that fascinates all of us who have studied this subject. >> we have today, we have a feeling for the underground railroad. during the time in the 1850s, how much do people in the country know about the underground railroad? >> well -- >> in newspapers. >> absolutely. there are a number of ways that you have to dig into the subject. this is a very difficult subject to research because for the most part these people were secretive about what they were up to with some exceptions like owen lovejoy. there were numerous accounts of fu

, beautiful hilly park with a lake in the middle out there, and because there's no people in western illinois anyway, there's nobody in the park. and so, i'm running all these trails, and it's like being inside of nature, just totally connected in the running, in the movement, in the air, the earth - all the elements are right there, and it's very renewing, it really is. and these kinds of experiences are - they're lost on us, and even if you live in the country, there's that element in the urban atmosphere that draws us away, either through tv or whatever. yeah, warren? >> i was thinking of a psychologist, jung, and his idea of the collective unconsciousness. i think in the west, we have been so heady - think, you've got to think, you better - all this kind of thing. my wife and i both have studied it, and it seems like there's dimensions. being raised in this culture, i wasn't even aware, and this kind of thing, this ritual we went through, just kind of - like i actually kind of experienced that, rather than just reading about it. maybe not real deep, but it kind of like was really a little

his first book "the underground railroad in western illinois," available in the back, describes the central founders of knox college who were part of an important web of individuals across the country, fighters for freedom. it has been described as an essential text for understanding that struggle for freedom in the midwest. his second book entitled "theodore dwight weld and the american anti-slavery society" also recalls this important collective effort that brought many people together in small and sometimes unrecognized ways to make great and enormous changes which we celebrate this month. he will speak to us today about a distinguished 19th century member of this house who represented the proud state of illinois. i give you owen muelder, a true son of knox, class of 1963. >> thank you, president amaut. and i thank the united states capitol historical society, the illinois state society of washington, d.c., and the knox college d.c. alumni club. in the early evening of november 7th, 1837, an ugly, drunken crowd of violence-prone anti-abolitionists gathered together in the city of alton,

pointing to how well their candidate did in conservative strongholds in downstate central and western illinois >>if mitt romney wants to have to have a nomination he has a lot more work to do this is not over yet >>it all boils down to one word freedom i am glad to hear that gov. rustromney is adopting that team but romney has also set his sights on november in president obama rather than his republican rivals: >>i had success and failure speech step of the way i learned what it is that makes our american system so powerful you cannot learn that teaching constitutional law at the university of chicago you can even learn this as a community organizer up next for the candidates louisiana saturday president obama kicks off a trip that will focus on his energy policies he will visit nevada new mexico oklahoma and ohio over the next two days in nevada he will check out a facility that uses 1 million solar panels to our homes there then he will have to some federal land in new mexico that has more than 70 oil rigs tomorrow he will have to oklahoma and two ohio the president is tackling the issue of

point that i want to extend on when we get to doctrine, but i teach the bible sequence down at western illinoisnd naturally, i have the classic evangelical born again christian in there, and a good many of them really know the bible, but many of them do not know the cultural context, and you need to have - you need to understand the symbolism. when we look at a book like revelation , that is causing so much turmoil, and may well have been behind political acts of destruction in this country, in which the symbolism - i'm not just making this up, folks - the symbolism that drove a timothy mcveigh to such extreme is drawn from the book of revelation , filtered through soldier of fortune and christian identity movements and all these sorts of things, in which the symbols that were being used 1,900 years ago are skewed in such a way to present u.s. and u.s. government as some kind of demonic force. so you're so right there, and it's one of the things we're going to have to pay attention to. and you know, as we're running down to the last few seconds, unfortunately, in this class, keep that in mind,

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veteran coach western illinois it first ever -- a tournament south dakota state tonight plan for themess off to the races for western for the slam up by nine points and now overtime tied at 44. national football league coming down hard bounties on opposing players new orleans saints' head coach sean payton and gm mickey loomis take full responsibility today and divorce months and the making just about final report say colts and four time most viable player taken man and parted ways tomorrow. hitting early in spring training outfield prospect brett jackson 3 run home run chicago cubs ahead to stay against colorado huge day for alfonso soriano 3-3 including a pair of home runs scored three runs stroke and three chicago cubs scored 28 runs and three games first victory 11-4 over colorado. and robin ventura take big tabs on john danks first spring appearance likely opening day starter jorge cantu sigel to left field to two runs score john danks gave up three runs walked three on the board and the second brent lillibridge shot to left misplayed tyler flowers scores falling to the angels 6

they emphasized he won in conservative areas of illinois such as down state, western illinois. santorum emphasized delegates he would be picking up with romney winning the state that will only tag his lead after it was over, santorum insisted waits not a bad night. >> we did very well tonight. a very tough state, one nobody had expectations to win in. we did what we had to do and got the delegates we can get. and now aum conservatives to line up behind it. >> a point of emphasis there from santorum having conservatives line up with him. interesting point. a chief strategist came down and talked about not only wanting conservative owes support from those supporting newt gingrich but talked about wanting to hire people who worked for newt gingrich to work on the campaign so the message here was trying to turn the page getting a home state audience and talking about freedom. some of the themes we heard him talk about. then, it's on to wees wees where this campaign believes it will do well this weekend. bret? >>. >> bret: mike, thank you. let's get analysis from the team of experts

. >> we're going to get western illinois, we won the areas that conservatives and republicans populatery happy about that. >> he lost the senate in pennsylvania by the largest margin in the history of the state for any incoming senator getting reelected. you have to ask yourself, is that really the background to try to take on barack obama. >> reporter: the former house speaker pulled out of illinois to try to focus on indiana. ron paul made only one stop in illinois. ron paul and newt gingrich were shut out of the delegate count tonight. up next louisiana that vote is saturday. live in washington, craig boswell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now, here's the republican delegate count. mitt romney now has 563 delegates. that's almost half of what he needs to secure the gop nomination. san for rum has 263. gingrich 135, and ron paul currently has 50 delegates. >>> the richmond city council is meeting tonight to decide whether to move ahead with proposed expansion of medical marijuana dispensaries. the council already agreed tentatively to increase the number of dispensaries from

lightning flashing thunderstorms western illinois marchant and our directions clouds of getting thatdegree temperature high today in chicago beat wall of cold air 24-hour temperature change narrow corridor to days to come through. representative of what is to come in the next few weeks largely above normal way above normal all ready to the west cool air. every now and then a reality check. crossing the mississippi behind showers tonight. high temperatures today cold barbaric stuff holdup in northern canada. closer look temperatures warm weather coming to chicago. can you believe these temperatures? 43 degrees in a normal high temperature we were at many levels temperatures today at 25 degrees above normal. the big gusts over 50 mi. per hour in some parts of the area. wind with last gusto coming down by morning. look at some of these wind gusts. one over 50 mi. per hour 46 mi. per hour wind gusts at o'hare. over 60 out 3 mi. offshore. strongest wind gusts in six years today. pretty amazing. look at some temperatures 70 degrees pontiac buffalo grove george armstrong elementary school r

. >> we're going to get western illinois, we won the areas that conservatives and republicans populatebout that. >> he lost the senate in pennsylvania by the largest margin in the history of the state for any incoming senator getting reelected. you have to ask yourself, is that really the background to try to take on barack obama. >> reporter: the former house speaker pulled out of illinois to try to focus on indiana. ron paul made only one stop in illinois. ron paul and newt gingrich were shut out of the delegate count tonight. up next louisiana that vote is saturday. live in washington, craig boswell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now, here's the republican delegate count. mitt romney now has 563 delegates. that's almost half of what he needs to secure the gop nomination. san for rum has 263. gingrich 135, and ron paul currently has 50 delegates. >>> the richmond city council is meeting tonight to decide whether to move ahead with proposed expansion of medical marijuana dispensaries. the council already agreed tentatively to increase the number of dispensaries from four to si

we're going to win central illinois, western illinois. we won the areas the conservatives and republicans populate and we're very happy about that. we're happy about the delegates we're going to get too. >> reporter: rick santorum talking to his supporters in gettysburg, pennsylvania last night. we had a reporter there, gary nurenberg. you want to hear what he asked rick santorum and what santorum promised gary nurenberg and all of our viewers and his supporters. we'll also coming up in my next live report have a look admit romney's schedule in maryland. we'll see you in a half-hour. >> delia goncalves reporting live from our satellite center this morning. >>> here's what the primary calendar looks like going forward. this saturday it's louisiana primary. santorum holds a 13-point advantage over romney in the latest poll there. april 3 voters in the district, maryland and wisconsin go to the polls. it's a big gap from there to april 24 where five states including new york and pennsylvania hold their primaries. >>> you may run into a littl

. >> we're going to win down state, we're going to win central illinois, western illinois, we won the areas conservatives and republicans populate, we're happy about that. we're happy about the delegates we're going to get too. >> romney and his allies outspent santorum 7-1 in illinois, and apparently it turned out big time. chuck todd, thanks for burning the midnight oil tonight. >> you got it, buddy: >> the big takeaway from this tonight, someone that's a novice news consumer, what's the headline read after tonight? >> well, i think romney's a step closer. he's on his way, he's still not put the period at the end of the sentence of presumptive nominee, and he's been to this point before, just one more win to put the exclamation point, the period, whatever you want to say, whatever punctuation mark you want to use to end this campaign and end this chapter and every time he's about to it's when santorum wins something else, this something else would be wisconsin. illinois could have been the period or exclamation point had romney won illinois -- romney won mississippi last week. i wan

well in down states, illinois, really south of the metropolitan area of chicago and out into western illinois actually become more republican over time. people view illinois as democrat state, but outside of the metropolitan area, it's actually become more of a republican state, although up here in chicagoland, as i call it, this is where the votes are. >> now, you became a more famous name nationally. in the very first television ad that then candidate obama ran when he was running for president. something i'm sure that really helped you in the republican primary for governor. i say that from a friendly place. >> it was a factor, but not the killer. >> let me assess -- assess president obama. you think he deserves -- do you think, are you going to support, if romney's the nominee, governor romney over your former colleague in the state senate there, barack obama? >> i'll support any of the republican presidential nominee, whoever that is, against president obama. you know, i'm always supportive of the republican party. i was a john mccain delegate, and you mow, i was limited in a very small

they emphasized he won in conservative areas of illinois such as down state, western illinois. santorum emphasized delegates he would be picking up with romney winning the state that will only tag his lead after it was over, santorum insisted waits not a bad night. >> we did very well tonight. a very tough state, one nobody had expectations to win in. we did what we had to do and got the delegates we can get. and now aum conservatives to line up behind it. >> a point of emphasis there from santorum having conservatives line up with him. interesting point. a chief strategist came down and talked about not only wanting conservative owes support from those supporting newt gingrich but talked about wanting to hire people who worked for newt gingrich to work on the campaign so the message here was trying to turn the page getting a home state audience and talking about freedom. some of the themes we heard him talk about. then, it's on to wees wees where this campaign believes it will do well this weekend. bret? >>. >> bret: mike, thank you. let's get analysis from the team of experts

going to happen tonight, we're going to win down state, we're going to win central illinois, western illinoiseas that conservatives and republicans popula populate. we're happy about that. we're happy about the delegates we're going to get too. we wanted to come here tonight back to pennsylvania, back to a favorite place of mine in pennsylvania. the city and the town of gettysburg. obviously it's so many memories come to mind when we walk on here in the town and across the street where abraham lincoln finished the gettysburg address. and you think about the great elections of our past. i've gone around this country over the past year now and said this is the most important election in our lifetimes. i think it's the most important election since the election of 1860. the election in 1860 was about whether these united states -- which is what it was mostly referred to prior to the election of 1860 -- would become the united states. whether it would be a union. a country bound together to build a great and prosperous nation. a nation based on a concept, a concept we were birthed with. a concept

we're going to win western illinois. we won the area that republicans and conservatives populate we're happy about that. we're happy about the delegates we're going to get too. [ applause ] >> we wanted to come here tonight back to pennsylvania, back to a favorite place of mine in ma pa. the city and town of gettysburg. it's so many memories come to mind when we walk here in the town and across the street where abraham lincoln finished the gege gettysburg around. i've said this is the most important election in our lifetimes and i think it's the most important election since the election of 1860. the election of 1860 was about whether these united states which is what it was mostly referred to prior to the election of 1860 would become the united states where there would be union, a country bound together to build a great and prosperous nation. nation based on a concept. a concept that we were birthed with. a concept birthed in our founding document of the declaration of independence. i've said throughout the course of t

they emphasized he won in conservative areas of illinois such as down state, western illinois. santorum emphasized delegates he would be picking up with romney winning the state that will only tag his lead after it was over, santorum insisted waits not a bad night. >> we did very well tonight. a very tough state, one nobody had expectations to win in. we did what we had to do and got the delegates we can get. and now aum conservatives to line up behind it. >> a point of emphasis there from santorum having conservatives line up with him. interesting point. a chief strategist came down and talked about not only wanting conservative owes support from those supporting newt gingrich but talked about wanting to hire people who worked for newt gingrich to work on the campaign so the message here was trying to turn the page getting a home state audience and talking about freedom. some of the themes we heard him talk about. then, it's on to wees wees where this campaign believes it will do well this weekend. bret? >>. >> bret: mike, thank you. let's get analysis from the team of experts

we're going to win western illinois. we won the areas that conservatives populate and we're happy about that. we're happy about the delegates we're going to get, too. [ applause ] >> i wanted to come here tonight back to pennsylvania, back to a favorite place of mine in pennsylvania, the city and the town of gettysburg. [ applause ] >> obviously, so many memories come to mind when we walk here in the town and across the street where abraham lincoln finished the gettysburg address at the wills house. and you think about the great elections of our past, and i've gone around this country over the past year now and said this is the most important election in our lifetimes. in fact, i think it's the most important election since the election of 1860. the election of 1860 was about whether these united states, which is what it was mostly referred to prior to the election of 1860, would become the united states. whether it would be a union, a country bound together to build a great and prosperous nation. a nation built on a con

a new study by western illinois study shows a link between facebook and narcissism. that. people who had high scores on narcissism personality survey spent more time on their facebook feed and had more facebook friends. these so-called narcissists also reacted aggressively to negative comments made about them on their facebook wall. and they also change their profile pictures more often. i can safely say i don't do facebook. >> can i weigh in here? brian has a new picture on his twitter feed. >> you do change it fairly regularly, sully. >> i like the picture because somebody told me it was so low res that when you opened it i looked like a monet. i was all pixel ated. wear suits all the time, makeup, all this hair spray in. >> that picture was from your holiday. you had a bit of a going. how big did it get by the end of the week? the full ned kelly. >> i don't know who ned kelly is. >> australians would know. >> i know who he is. i'm teasing. i'm fine. but it's nice to relax and not shower for eight or nine days and have a good time. >> interesting. >> up next. >> li

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state, we're going to win central illinois, western illinois.n the areas that conservatives and republicans populate. we're very happy about that. >> that that was rick santorum last night saying while he didn't win the state, he won where conservatives and republicans live. joining us now is santorum national communications director hogan gidley. a pleasure to have you as always, sir. >> welcome back from vegas, alex. great to be here. >> don't giveaway all the secrets, hogan. your man senator rick santorum saying he won where conservatives and republicans live. i want to unpack that a little bit. we look at the exit polls. mitt romney won not only independents which comes to little surprise to those of us watching the race but he won conservatives 47 to 39%, those who strongly support the tea party, he won those making under $30 thu a year, 41% to 39%. if those folks aren't considered conservatives and republicans, who are they? >> well, i mean, you have to look at the entire picture. you can't take one state that's tailor-made for mitt romney

rick santorum's strength in the western enand aouthern part of illinois.ccording to the associated press, mitt romney with 522 delegates. he has increased that to 544. rick santorum will pick up delegates tonight. next is john from connecticut. >> you are going to win. you are going to pick gingrich as your vice president. three things my dad taught me, honesty, sincerity, respect people. go get them perry >> thank you for the call. next up is -- them. >> next up is jerry. >> i am amazed at the way people pick candidates. i do not have any of the four front-runners. when i look at cambridge i look at somebody who has the intelligence -- look at gingrich a look at somebody who has the intelligence to fix the problems. we are not fixing the problem. the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch, all of those are dysfunctional. i think gingrich understands what the problem is. he is very astute on the constitution and the way the government works. not that the others are not. he is at least addressing the problem, rather than trying to

if you are back behind that, toward illinois or western kentucky, in to indiana, you are fine. you have a really rough day. we're not done. it progresses toward the east. these are watches in effect. you see this, it goes until midnight. central time. until 11:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll push to the dark hours when you don't get any kind of visual cue of any warning. tornadoes that might be out there. i want to show you this, right here. anyplace you see a red square, the red outline, those are active tornado warnings. these go down to florida to alabama and georgia. they stretch up north across tennessee, toward north carolina to west virginia. a dangerous batch of these cutting right here across kentucky. these are going to be the worst storms we see. we saw some of these across the ohio river valley. the actual in toward the river area. now they are pulling up toward the eastern part of kentucky. i think probably, bret the next three hours we still have a threat for large long live dangerous tornadoes. at that point, we'll have a tornado threat to the overnight hours and we