Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It

In 1924, the murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner shocked the world, providing the real—life inspiration for Maurine Watkins’s unforgettable characters, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Now, a century later, this reissue of Watkins’s play offers a fresh look at the origins of the story that has since become a household name.

From the silent film Chicago produced by Cecil B. DeMille in 1927 to the 1942 film Roxie Hart starring Ginger Rogers and the Broadway sensation created by Bob Fo...