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  • Book looks at how immigrants revitalize a small Midwest town

    Feb 1, 2016 9:00 pm by Jodi HeckelResearch
    photo of Illinois urban and regional planning professor Faranak Miraftab by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • photo of Illinois urban and regional planning professor Faranak Miraftab by L. Brian Stauffer

    Immigrants from Latin America and Africa work in a central Illinois meatpacking plant. These displaced workers have made a new home in Beardstown, Illinois, but in many ways, they’ve also made a new town.