Illinois Printers — A Printer’s Paradise

The fire didn’t appear to have the moral cleansing effect such an event would conjure, like a flood or an ice age. Chicago quickly turned crooked before the roaring ’20s could make any noise. The South Side’s White Sox, champions of baseball in 1917, got fed up with owner Charles Commisky’s penny-pinching, miserly ways and allegedly agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds for $10,000 or $20,000 per player (depending upon who you believe).