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| 1931 - Edith Freund, a native of Peoria, wrote a historical novel about one of the great events in Chicago history: the World's Columbian Exposition on 1893. She had been working on a nonfiction project, but when that failed to pan out, she used her research as the basis for "Chicago Girls." Critics enjoyed the story of a rich girl and a poor girl set against the backdrop of the Exposition, but some saw it as bogged down in detail, perhaps because of its nonfiction origins. Freund is married and has five children, and was a reporter in Arlington Heights. Works:
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