Opinion Your Opinion: MLK and critical race theory Dear Editor: My great-grandfather, a white physician in northern Illinois, ran a station on the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Jul. 10 2021 @ 11:05pm William Steinmeier Dear Editor: My great-grandfather, a white physician in northern Illinois, ran a station on the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom in Canada. After the Civil War, he moved his practice into the town of Wheaton, where a college had been founded in 1860 by a white Christian abolitionist. My grandmother and my parents all gradu...