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Year Zion Congregation B'nai Abraham Congregation America World
1864

June: Public meetings to establish Zion Congregation of West Chicago.

Sept 30: First service held in a Baptist Church on the west side. Later purchased house on Desplaines St. between MadisonSt. and Washington Blvd.

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  President Lincoln is running for re-election. The civil war is in its 3rd year.  
1865     End of Civil War  
1869

erected a new building at the corner of Sangamon and Jackson streets

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1870  

This house of worship located on Halsted and 14th Street was formed by a few Jews of the Southwest side of Chicago. Third congregation to adopt Reform Judaism.

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1871     Great Chicago Fire  
1884

built Temple at Ogden Avenue and Washington Boulevard

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1891  

Congregation’s Trustees at the Temple at Wright and Johnson Streets to rent pews

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1892  

New building at Marshfield Avenue and Twelfth Street

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1914    

 

July 28 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, the start of WWI
1918 Purchased lot at Washington and Karlov      
1919

Congregations merge

US Congress approves the 19th Amendment for women's suffrage and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

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June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI
1920

Building dedicated

   
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    • Gary Zola
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    • Oy Vey Café
    • Piano Concert
    • Cantors Concert
    • 150th Anniversary Gala
    • Gallery Project
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    • Architecture
    • Documents
    • History
  • Blog
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