July 13. Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, is welcomed back to Chicago by thirty-five thousand cheering fans as he returns from his ten-month prison sentence. He is accompanied in his procession down South State Street by his white wife, Lucille Cameron Johnson . Above Johnson poses for photographers. Chicago Historical Society , Dally News Collection
June 24. Heavily veiled, the pretty Isabelle Cora Orthwein stands before the judge as her sensational trial for the March first murder of her paramour ends in her acquittal. The jury was out less than an hour.
Chicago Historical Society, Dally News Collection
August 10. Governor Len Small of Illinois (on the left) is placed under arrest at Springfield by the sheriff of Sangamon County on charges of embezzling half a million dollars from the state. This ends two weeks of hide and seek with the law during which time Small maintained that he was immune to arrest.
October 27. Charlie Chaplin, stopping over in Chicago after his triumphal first return to Europe, refuses to smile for the photographers. He has smiled his way all over Europe and is tired of it. Chicago Historical Society, Daily News Collection
Chicago Historical Society, Daily News Collection
September 25. John Weismuller, the Illinois Athletic Club's spectacular seventeen-year-old swimmer, breaks the world's tank record for 100 yards in New York .
November 8 . Peggy Hopkins Joyce gives an interview at the Drake after agreeing to a record one million dollar divorce settlement. Lumberman J. Stanley Joyce divorced her because of her "many, many, many affairs" with "titled and untitled" Europeans. Chicago Historical Society, Daily News Collection