Alan says:
"For those of you who think Pagans are recent in Chicago: this is from
Feb. of 1985. My teacher, Althea had been initiated more than ten years
before that in Chicago. She's left of center and is now coming on 40
years of magickal practice. Before that occult revival, there were
Theosophists, new thought practitioners, magickal lodges, masonic
groups, spiritualists and groups with contacts to inner plane masters.
Chicago has been a center for the esoteric community for years and
years!"