Douglas Plaza

Historical marker location:

3232 South Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, Illinois

( Memorial is on South Martin Luther King Drive, 0.2 miles south of 32nd Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Site of Civil War Camp Douglas. 1861-65.

Illinois was the first state in the country to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery. The amendment was ratified by Illinois on February 1, 1865, before it was ratified by any other state.