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

by Nicholas L. Syrett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022676155X
• ISBN13: 9780226761558
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"