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 ...

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 ...

A flask of bootleg hooch, worn at the hip. Cigarette smoke so thick, only the hottest jazz could cut it. Turned-down hose, revealing more than the girl who married dear old dad ever dared. Ladies and ...

We plucked the gorgeous femmes fatales off Broadway and onto the stage at GQ Men Of The Year awards After over 6,600 performances, the longest-running American musical is still the only place in the ...