“Rest Easy, I Pack a Gun”: True Tales of the First Chicago Policewomen
By Susanna Calkins
July 24, 2020On November 17, 1920, two Chicago-based actresses, Marie Ramey and Lillian Thompson, were killed and thrown from a car after they had allegedly “indulged in an automobile flirtation with four young men.” While two of the men turned themselves into the police shortly afterward, they couldn’t (or wouldn’t) identify their companions. The investigation stalled until…