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Beverly is home to a large Irish-American community and many Irish establishments. Beverly is the home of the South Side Irish Parade, the largest neighborhood parade of any type in the country. The neighborhood is home to more Irish style pubs than any other in Chicago, including Cork and Kerry, The Dubliner and Fox's. The Beverly Arts Center is the location for the Chicago Irish Film Festival. There is a replica of a castle from Ireland in Beverly, which was constructed in the late 1800's when an American buisnessman, Robert Givens. was trying to convince his Irish fiance to move to America, and so had a duplicate of her family castle built with stone from the same quarry. The "Givens Castle" ( Photo ), at 10244 S. Longwood Drive, has been a home, an all-girls college, and is now a Unitarian church and pre-school. The Castle is one of Chicago's most reputed haunted places. The Beverly Branch Library has the largest Irish heritage collection in Chicago. Beverly has five , Brother Rice , St. Rita, St. Laurence, St. Leo, and De La Salle), all-girls ( Mother McAuley , Queen Of Peace , Mt. Assisi, Maria) and co-ed ( St. Ignatius , Marist, Marian Catholic) Catholic high schools. The area is home to Dan Ryan Woods, part of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County's Calumet Division, as well as the highest point in the city, at the intersection of 87th and Western Avenue. EXTERNAL LINKS
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