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It must have looked like a western ghost town in early 1946 . Empty buildings from Camp Ellis dotted the farm fields north of Route 10 (now Highway 136) between Table Grove and Ipava.  There were 2,200 of them, but just a skeleton crew of personnel remained. As the years passed, the Illinois National GuardContinue reading “Where did Camp Ellis go? Why can’t I see it anymore?”