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Utopia

Yasmin Rammohan | February 21, 2012, 9:00 am

There were some unusual laws in what used to be a Christian Utopia, but is now Zion, Illinois. Geoffrey Baer has the surprising story of Zion, and some of Chicago's other hidden utopias.

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