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by Julie Terstriep In 1940, Fulton County, Illinois, boasted a total population of more than 44,000 individuals. By 1950, the population had dropped to a little over 43,000, but the years in between brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to the county to train and work at Camp Ellis. Statistics of that populationContinue reading “Black soldiers at Camp Ellis”