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Forgotten Chicagoans: Albert Zangerle

Forgotten Chicagoans: Albert Zangerle

There’s a lovely epigraph on the building at 1538 N. Halsted Street near Old Town that reads “Zangerle.” Albert Zangerle was born October 15, 1873 in Tyrol, Austria. He arrived in the United States in the mid-1880s. He married his wife Theresia in 1900 and settled into this building soon after as a machinist. He... Read more »

By Neil Arsenty,
June 28, 2013 at 10:30 am •

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