Longtime Skokie Resident Reaches Goal; Celebrates 100th Birthday With Family

The goal of longtime Skokie resident Fanny Kohn was to live to be 100 and be surrounded by the people she loved.

She obtained both those goals, according to the Chicago Tribune. Kohn, 100, died last Sunday at Lincolnwood Place retirement home where she lived.

Kohn had a 17-year career with the Illinois Department of Transportation, working with and for engineers in the Division of Highways. She often had to balance her job with raising children.

“As a little boy, I remember when your mother working meant you were poor,” Steve Kohn, her son, told the Tribune. She was “a very tough cookie.”

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