The practice of drag in Chicago is longstanding and has made a political impact. From a criminalized act to the central feature of a political campaign. Drag has come a long way, baby!

This project explores Chicago’s elite from 1860 to 1940. Elites are those individuals who have disproportionate access to the most scarce and useful resources in society: wealth, political power, signs of cultural legitimacy, and valuable social ties. The history of capitalism is characterized by sharp and durable inequalities between social classes. But the structures of this inequality has…