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Internment camp, industrial town among new
national monuments
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• Chicago's historic Pullman District, a World War
  II internment camp and a section of Colorado's
  upper Arkansas River Valley will become the
  nation's newest national monuments this week.
  President Barack Obama plans to make the
  announcement Thursday during a visit to Chicago's
  Pullman town, a historic industrial site that
  will become the first National Park Service unit
  in the city. Obama is naming the sites using his
  authority under the Antiquities Act, which he has
  already used to establish or expand 16 national
  monuments. Since 1906, presidents have used the
  act to protect other historic and natural sites
  across the country, including the Grand Canyon
  and the Statue of Liberty.
• Pullman National Monument, Illinois
• America's first planned company-owned town where
  Pullman Palace Car Co. employees worked and
  lived. This was the site that prompted the first
  industry-wide strike (railroads) and eventually
  led to the creation of Labor Day.
• Honouliuli National Monument, Hawaii Not far
  from Pearl Harbor, the Honouliuli Internment Camp
  opened in 1943 and was the longest-used and
  largest site for holding Japanese-Americans in
  Hawaii. "This historic site will memorialize the
  strength and bravery of the many
  Japanese-Americans who faced discrimination.
• Browns Canyon National Monument, Colorado
• Located in the upper Arkansas River Valley, this
  21,000-acre monument will protect the bighorn
  sheep, bald eagles and amazing diversity of
  wildlife and plants that inhabit the mountains
  and cliffs of Browns Canyon.

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In Other News

• Ice cream enthusiasts, take heed Ben Jerry's
  has announced its newest ice cream flavor, and
  it's another inspired by late-night host Jimmy
  Fallon. It's called The Tonight Dough! It
  combines chocolate and caramel ice creams with
  chocolate chip cookie dough, peanut butter cookie
  dough and a crunchy chocolate cookie swirl. As
  with most Ben Jerry's flavors, there's a
  charity associated with it, so you can feel good
  while you enjoy a cone. This time, proceeds go to
  nonprofit SeriousFun Children's Network, which
  goes out of its way to help children with serious
  illnesses enjoy camp experiences and bond with
  others.
• Partially frozen Niagara Falls.