Miss Chicago Georgia Theodora Hale was the winner in the first year of the Miss Chicago contest in 1922. Hale, who was from Englewood, became a silent movie star after competing in the Miss America beauty pageant. Hale’s most notable role was in Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush and she also played Myrtle Wilson in the first film adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 1926

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