9/16/09 JASC receives National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites Program Grant Award! Chicago — The Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago (JASC) received a National Park Service grant of $74,620 for Winning the Peace, an exhibit on the role of Japanese American soldiers in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service (MIS) in World War II. The multimedia exhibit, which will include filmed interviews with Chicago-area Japanese American MIS veterans, will be shown at multiple locations, beginning with JASC's facility in Uptown Chicago in the spring of 2010. The JASC grant is one of 19 totaling $960,000 given by the National Park Service to help preserve and interpret many of the historic locations where Japanese Americans were confined during World War II. Their confinement followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, after which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of more than 110,000 men, women and children, most of them American citizens of Japanese ancestry... Click here to download the complete press release