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Friends—With Benefits?
A new documentary establishes Jane Addams and her close friend, Mary Rozet Smith, as gay icons. Does it go too far?
The Smoking Gun
At the turn of the 20th century, the country's most famous antismoking crusader was a sharp-tongued, stern-faced zealot from Chicago who nearly succeeded in achieving a statewide ban on cigarettes....
Reel Chicago
Founded 100 years ago, Chicago's Essanay studio launched the movie careers of Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery and helped a cockney comic named Charlie Chaplin rocket to fame.