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Figuring out why things are the way they are and collectively asking “Gee, what is that?” are unifying concepts, something everyone except uninterested duds can rally around.
When the SouthtownStar was moving from its longtime home in Tinley Park, a photographer secretly recruited a group of historians to help save photographs and print clips that were destined to be thrown away.
It was one of over 500 camps established in the United States that collectively housed more than 400,000 enemy combatants. The majority were captured in 1943 when German General Erwin Rommel’s expeditionary forces surrendered after losing battles in North Africa.