Early Life and Education
James Ingo Freed was born in 1930 in Essen, Germany to a German-Jewish family. The family left Germany in 1939, when Freed was nine years old, to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. They immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago.
In 1953, Freed received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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