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John Jones (1817–1879) was one of the earliest and most prominent African American citizens of Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered today as an abolitionist, as a friend of Frederick Douglass, and for his work on the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves find places of refuge on their journey to freedom. Jones had been born a free man of mixed race in North Carolina and came to Chicago in the mid-1840s.