Ambrose Brod

The photo shown is of the house at 5001 Warren St. that Ambrose Brod built with his own hands, and raised his children in, before it was demolished in May of 1996. The village of Skokie exercised its right of eminent domain to seize this and some adjacent properties for urban renovation. Magdalen and her sister Dorothy were given a settlement in exchange for the land and moved northeast in another section of Skokie.