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In November 1923, an entourage accompanying Mary Bartelme to her Circuit Court chambers bore witness to a significant occasion. “At the door, she was caught in a swirl of employees, flower baskets, after election cigar smoke and soprano congratulations,” the Tribune’s Genevieve Forbes reported. “The procession of club women, judges, scrub women and dependent girls filed past. And Miss Bartelme . ....
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and tans, as nightclubs with a mixed-race clientele were known. At one, she noted that a patron had more than a little too much to drink. “She is lifted vaguely, on her way to the ladies room,” Forbes wrote. . ....
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