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Photo: Bolingbrook Students Simulate Ellis Island Immigrant Experience

Students were challenged Tuesday to act out what it would be like to be an immigrant.

Immigrants (from left) Roya Zaucha, Autumn Nilles and Jonah Park await their turn to be processed at Ellis Island after arriving by ship from Europe. The scene took place Tuesday at Jonas Salk Elementary School in Bolingbrook as 5th grade Challenge program students turned back the clock to the early 1900s.

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