John Alexander Dowie was a Scottish-Australian minister known as an evangelist and faith healer. He began his career as a minister of religion in South Australia. After becoming an evangelist and faith healer, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1888, first settling in San Francisco, where he developed his faith healing practise into a mail order business. He moved to Chicago in time to take advantage of the crowds attracted to the 1893 World's Fair. After attracting a huge faith healing business in Chicago, with multiple homes and businesses, including a publishing house, to keep his thousands of followers, he bought an extensive parcel of land north of the city to set up a private community.
John Alexander Dowie in his robes as Elijah the Restorer
Editorial cartoon by Bob Satterfield, depicting Dowie leaving Chicago with his carpetbags full of money
Zion is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 24,655.
Zion-Benton Township High School
Zion Metra Station
Zion Industries at Shiloh Tabernacle, July 1904, Zion City, Illinois
Man pouring two bottles of beer into trough into the sewer system during Prohibition in 1921, detail, from- Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer
