This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is still being developed with new locations added as we work through the weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946).

The POW Camps in Illinois during World War II included:

*Arlington Heights, Cook County, IL (branch camp under Sheridan, IL)
*Ellis (Camp), Table Grove, Fulton County, IL (base camp)
*Eureka, Woodford County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Gardiner General Hospital, Chicago, Cook and DuPage Counties, IL (branch camp under Meade, MD), located where Regents Park Apartments now stands
*Gibson City, Ford County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Grant (Camp), Rockford, Winnebago County, IL (base camp), now Rockford International Airport
*Grant Rifle Range (Camp) (not contigious to the camp), now Atwood Park, Rockford, Winnebago County, IL
*Hampshire POW Camp, Hampshire, Kane County, IL 60140 (branch camp under Grant, IL)
*Hoopeston, Vermilion County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Joliet, Will and Kendall Counties, IL (branch camp under Sheridan, IL)
*Lanark, Carroll County, IL (branch camp under Grant, IL)
*Mayo General Hospital, Galesburg, Knox County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL), now the Hawthorne Center
*Milford, Iroquois County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Pine (Camp), Des Plaines, Cook County, IL (branch camp under Sheridan, IL) (former Civilian Conservation Corps camp)
*Pomona, Jackson County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Sheridan (Fort), LaSalle County, IL 60037 (base camp)
*Skokie Valley, Skokie, Cook County, IL (branch camp under Sheridan, IL)
*Streator, LaSalle and Livingston Counties, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)
*Sycamore, DeKalb County, IL (branch camp under Grant, IL)
*Thornton, Cook County, IL (branch camp under Sheridan, IL)
*Vaughn General Hospital, Hines, Cook County, IL
*Washington, Tazewell County, IL (branch camp under Ellis, IL)

Many thanks to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District for help in additions and corrections to this list!

Fort Sheridan had branch camps in WI and MI.

Cemeteries:
Camp Grant, IL (two burials transferred to Camp Butler Nat'l Cemetery, IL in June 1946)
Camp Butler National Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon County, IL
Camp Ellis, IL (transferred to Ft. Sheridan, IL prior to February 1947)
Fort Sheridan Post Cemetery, Ft. Sheridan, IL

The Camp Butler National Cemetery contains POWs who died in IL, IN, NE and WI.

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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