Young women in the 1920s pushed the envelope by wearing short skirts and excessive makeup, bobbing their hair, drinking, driving cars, and avoiding what was deemed acceptable behavior at the time.

The latest screen version of The Great Gatsby opened this week. That calls to mind the story of Chicago’s own Edith Cummings. Born in 1899, Cummings grew up in Lake Forest among the social elite. She ...

In 1923, “a fourteen-year old from Chicago,” Judith Mackrell notes in her new multi-biography-cum-sociohistorical-examination, “tried to gas herself because ‘other girls in her class rolled their ...

Bobbing their hair, smoking in public, and going on unchaperoned dates weren’t the only ways in which liberated women of the 1920s were acting like men. They also were binding their chests, “because ...

Machine-gun-toting gangsters and sequin-clad flappers greeted partygoers at the Junior League of Chicago`s Roaring `20s fundraiser, The Bootleggers Bash and Casino Night Caper, held recently at Lake ...

After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...

STG proudly presents its Silent Movie Mondays: Flapper Era Series, running throughout the month of June. Fun and frolic are in store when leading ladies from the Flapper Era and Jazz Age strut their ...