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-- Westchester Tribune, September 28, 1926, page 2 --

THE MEN BEHIND ZELOSKY SUBURB

Hard-Thinking Men Direct Destinies of Gigantic Project -- Westchester

With the coming of the first elevated train from the Loop to the terminal station located in Zelosky's Westchester across the square from the William Zelosky office, on Roosevelt Road, and the assurance of the Rapid Transit company that express service from Westchester to the Loop will be maintained at twelve minute intervals, it is appropriate that our readers be informed as to the kind of men that are behind this newest and greatest development in the history of Chicago.  The central figure in the development of Westchester is William Zelosky, president of the company which has his name.  After coming to Chicago from the Texas ranges during the World's Fair, Mr. Zelosky entered the real estate field.  His life work has been the building of community centers in Chicago--not merely the sale of subdivisions.  He has built twenty-two such community centers during his thirty-two years of experience.  Al of these localities are now filled with home owners.  In fact, Mr. Zelosky is generally credited with having more people living in their own homes than any other man in the City of Chicago.

He has traveled in all of the countries of Europe studying housing problems, and there is not a principal city in America which he has not visited in his quest for knowledge.  He is a veritable human dynamo for work and has thrown behind Westchester the full weight of his knowledge and experience as a builder of communities where people enjoy living.  He looks upon Westchester as the crowning achievement of his life and is determined to unite in the building of Westchester all of the best things that go to make an ideal city and to eliminate all objectionable features.

Associated with Mr. Zelosky we find a group of hard working, clear thinking experienced men, each a specialist in his line and yet so broad as to thoroughly understand all of the problems connected with this gigantic undertaking.  Jerome M. Kane, vice-president, is Mr. Zelosky's "right hand man".  While acting as general director of sales he has a thorough grasp of the work of all departments in the organization which he could not fill.  He learned all branches of the subdivision and building field under Mr. Zelosky's leadership, starting on the "ground floor" as a part time salesman twelve years ago.

  Paul Rudolph, treasurer, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has had years of experience in the construction work, is an authority on bonds and finance, is a deep student and fills a place which few men could qualify.

 

August Schnell is head of the construction department.  He has had eighteen years experience building houses and apartment buildings in the various Zelosky community centers.  Under his direct charge many buildings will be built in Westchester to house the thousands who will follow the "L", and anyone who investigates the character of the buildings in these other Zelosky developments knows that no further evidence is needed as to the stability of the Zelosky building to be erected in Westchester than the fact that Mr. Schnell has charge of this department.

 

Walter B. Sadler is assistant sales director.  Like Mr. Rudolph, Mr. Sadler also has a technical education--and like Mr. Kane he started on the "ground floor" as a part time salesman, since which he has filled such positions as division sales manager, manager of bond department, and sales school instructor.  He is a man of boundless enthusiasm and when he puts his shoulder to the wheel, "the wheel goes around".

 

All of these men constitute the team that is putting Zelosky's Westchester on the map.  With such men behind Westchester this new city of ours, less than one year old, which on October 1 will have transportation facilities which older communities have been unable to acquire--this first model suburb of Chicago will soon become the marvel of Greater Chicago and the home of thousands of contented citizens.

 

 

The following photograph was below the lead stories found in the Westchester Tribune Sep 28 1926 page 1

Also on page 2 of this paper was a story about the Immanuel Lutheran Church.

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 The articles on this page were taken from the Westchester Tribune, Special Edition, September 28, 1926 -- Volume L-No. 43

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