cBy Joseph Ryan closest general store to north- planting their fields in the fertile the Friedrich Theodore FreyeDaily HemJd Staff Writer west Cook County. prairies. farmhouse, is one of the veryThe local American Indian The Freyes of Palatine Town- few to remain.More than 150 years ago, trihes had been chased out a ship made up just one of those The vacant home with peel-Chicago was a seven-hour horse little more than a decade earlier, immigrant farm families.ride away and Elgin boasted the and German immigrants were Today, their home, known as See HOUSE on PAGE 6The owner of theFriedrichTheodoreFreyefarmhouse in HoffmanEstates, circa 1852, wants to tear it down.BILL ZAKS I) AHA II KRAI D