An Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

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English | ISBN: 022676155X | 2021 | 218 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 1922 Robert Allerton-described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"-met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history.