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By Wendy Margolin
Staff Writer — Chicago Jewish Online
As a building inspector, Robb Packer drove by Chicago's defunct synagogues hundreds of times without ever knowing they existed. In fact, most people, even those who currently occupy these magnificent structures which have been converted into churches, communal centers, and condominiums, do not know that Jewish worship once echoed throughout the buildings. In some former synagogues, the only remnant of Judaism is the Hebrew letters fading in the old stones or the Hebrew date etched into the cornerstones.
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