Patrick Bredlau
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Patrick Bredlau graduated from Indiana University with a degree in business and received his graduate degree in banking from the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus. For 38 years he lived in the south suburbs of Chicago while working as a Federal bank examiner at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He retired in 2013. Being an avid hiker, he hiked the entire 2,185 mile Appalachian Trail in 6 months in 2014 and wrote the book – ”The Green Tunnel: A Hiker’s Appalachian Trail Diary ” which was published in 2015. Several pictures taken while hiking on the Appalachian Trail are currently on display at the Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois gallery.
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