Happy New Beer’s Eve!

On the evening of April 6, 1933, lines formed outside of bars and breweries. In Chicago, WGN Radio broadcast special…


In the 1920s, American women were Ready to Roar

In popular culture, representations of the 1920s “flapper” present a misleading image of an over-sexualized and rebellious woman breaking away…


Mabel Willebrandt: Prolific prosecutor of Prohibition laws

Second in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one-time public defender and tax lawyer to…