In 1929, a group of prominent women pledged to keep the Chicago World’s Fair scheduled for 1933 from being a dud. No one asked them to assume that burden. To the contrary, the men who planned it snubbed them.
a mail order behemoth. Or the writers who prompted a Baltimore newspaper editor, H.L. Mencken, in 1920 to proclaim Chicago “The Literary Capital of the United States.”
Mrs. Henry W. Hardy, president of the Cook County Federation of Women’s Clubs, “declared that before Chicago could ‘come clean’ before the rest of the world, its politics would have to be put under the same rigorous attention as its yards and alleyways.” Gang wars were fought over speakeasies, covert drinking establishments tolerated by the authorities—for a price.
Moreover, Thompson was accused of lining his own pockets as president of the 1933 Fair’s predecessor, the “Pageant of Progress,” a trade fair of 1921 and 1922 held on Municipal Pier, as Navy Pier was then known.Municipal Pier is decorated for the formal opening of the Pageant of Progress Exposition.
At a luncheon in the Sherman Hotel’s ballroom honoring notable women — judges, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs — Cermak excoriated Hollywood’s exploitation of Chicago’s gangland heritage. “Little Caesar”, a fictionalized account of a Chicago hoodlum, was being screened at the Uptown Theater.
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