Maier, Vivian

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Wikipedia article about Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier was a photographer who lived in Rogers Park at the end of her life. Maybe from the late 90's until her death in 2007.

She moved to the Chicago area's North Shore in 1956 and there, for approximately 40 years, worked on and off as a nanny, staying with one family for 14 years.

Toward the end of her life, Maier may have been homeless for some time. She lived on Social Security and may have had another source of income. The children from an unidentified family that she had cared for in the early 1950s bought her an apartment in the Rogers Park area of Chicago and paid her bills. In 2008, she slipped on ice and hit her head. She did not fully recover and died in 2009 at the age of 83.