Rogers Park Draft Board
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Local Draft Board
The local draft board is a board that administers and executes the main provisions of the Selective Draft Law. Its functions comprise the registration, rejection and selection of men of military age as fixed by legislative enactment. It is also responsible to the government for the part of mobilization up to arrival in camp, of those who "passed" and are "called". A local draft board has jurisdiction over a prescribed territory determined by population. Larger cities had fifty or more local draft boards.
In 1956, during the Korean War, the Rogers Park Draft Board was opened at 1605 W. Devon Avenue.
Photos
RPWRHS photo C043-32262 shows draftees at Broadway & Devon Avenue in 1944.
