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Oak Park no jungle, but `Tarzan' began there

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20000831
Author:CARLOS SADOVI

When Lawrence and Dawn Kacmar were about to buy their home on 414 Augusta in Oak Park, they were told Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of "Tarzan," once lived there.

At first, they thought it was a sales ploy until other people started coming around and they began to see the address in biographies. They learned that it was there the King of the Apes came to life.

"I didn't give much credence to it; I figured it was another tactic to sell the house," said Lawrence Kacmar, a physician.

But on the 125th anniversary of Burroughs' birth, officials from the Historical Society of Oak Park and River ...

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