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In this excerpt from “Riding the Rails to Hero Street” immigrants fleeing the Mexican Revolution settle in Silvis, Illinois, work for the railroad, and live in a boxcar village. Later they move to the block-an-a-half-long 2nd Street and eight sons of these immigrants are lost in WWII and and Korea. More lost than from any other street of any size in America. In the late 1960s the street is renamed Hero Street in their honor.

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