The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, is thriving despite Upton Sinclair’s expose from five years earlier, “The Jungle.” Chicago is known as "hog butcher for the world" and the center of the American meat packing industry. It will remain open until 1971.

The stench from the stockyards is so overpowering that it can literally be detected several miles away. On days when the wind is blowing in the right direction, paying customers at West Side Grounds can smell it, which certainly adds to the ambiance of a Cubs game.

*This is a photograph of shoppers in downtown Chicago. This year's shoppers have a little more money in their pockets than last year's shoppers--who were in the midst of a nationwide economic collapse that needed to be rescued by billionaire JP Morgan. (That collapse led to the creation of the Fed)

Emanual Goldenberg turns 15 (Dec 10)in New York. When he grows up he adopts the stage name Edward G. Robinson. The "G" is for his real last name. (Click on his name to watch him dance.)

A little boy is born in Chicago. His name is Morey Amsterdam (Dec 14). After being caught in a gunfight while performing at one of Al Capone's speakeasys in 1924, he'll move to California. He'll go on to star in one of the best shows in television history.

The film "An Awful Moment" (directed by DW Griffith) is released.