Site of the John and Mary Jones House

[2] The home served as a "station" on the Underground Railroad, which helped hundreds of fugitive slaves find freedom in the North and Canada.

Serving as "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, the Joneses provided food and shelter to fugitive slaves, as well as clothing, money for transportation, and often bail and bond.

[2] Their Chicago residence also served as a meeting place for locally and nationally prominent abolitionists, including Allan Pinkerton, Frederick Douglass and John Brown,[3]: 132  and was the center of their life-long efforts to achieve greater civil rights for enslaved and free blacks alike.

[2] More recently, after the removal of the tracks in the late-1970s, the grounds of the house were incorporated into the then-newly developed Dearborn Park neighborhood of Chicago's near south side.

Today, at the corner of 9th Street and Plymouth Court, there is no plaque or any other form of marker to commemorate the historic Jones house.