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For a long time, the story of the Pekin woman whose historic legal battle to secure her freedom from slavery was all but forgotten. Now, she's getting recognition on both sides of the Illinois River.
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The new Freedom and Remembrance Memorial Park on Peoria's Southwest Adams Street commemorates memory of a forgotten cemetery.
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Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said there is an effort to recognize this tenacious woman in her adopted hometown.