William Hale Thompson
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William Hale Thompson Jr. was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as "Big Bill", he is the most recent Republican to have served
Thompson, photographed between 1911 and 1917
Illustrations of Thompson (center) and other members of the 1896 Chicago Athletic Association football team
Thompson circa 1900
Thompson during his 1915 mayoral campaign
Baby Face Nelson
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Lester Joseph Gillis, also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger when he helped Dillinger escape from prison in Crown
William Hale Thompson
…Thompson married Mary "Maysie" Walker Wyse, a secretary in his father's office. The two never had children. In 1930 his wife was robbed at gunpoint by George "Baby Face" Nelson, taking jewelry valued at $18,000. She described her attacker, saying "He had a baby face. He was good looking, hardly more than a boy, had dark hair…
Gillis' 1931 mugshot
A plaque at the Barrington Park District in Barrington, Illinois, commemorates the lives of the three FBI agents killed by Nelson
Nelson's grave