Lifelong Chicagoan Ellen has worked more than two decades as a journalist, some years as a college-level instructor, and others as a city planning advocate. A historian by training, with master's degrees in U.S. history and historic preservation, she has written two books for Arcadia Publishing, Glencoe, Illinois and Taylor Street, Chicago's Little Italy. She spends her retirement giving tours of Chicago architecture with the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
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