“Chicago” won best picture 20 years ago at the Academy Awards. Did you know the popular musical is based on the lives of real women who were accused of killing men here almost a century ago? And that the story of “murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery” was written by a Chicago Tribune … Continue reading Vintage Chicago Tribune: Murder, mayhem and ‘all that jazz’ — the real women who inspired Oscar winner ‘Chicago’