CHICAGO SUBURB WANTS NAME CHANGED
Hollywood, Illinois (JFK+50) On February 10, 1922, a group of citizens of the small Chicago suburb Hollywood* have started a movement "to have its name changed" according to the New York Tribune.
The reason given is that the people of this "little suburb" are very upset over the scandals** that have been reported out of the motion picture capital of the world.
City officials say that some "formal action" will be taken soon.
*Hollywood Park is listed as a Chicago suburb at www.mentalfloss.com/. Nick Greene says Hollywood Avenue was named by former California resident John Lewis Cochran.
**In 1920, former Ziegfeld Girl Olive Thomas, wife of Jack Pickford (brother of actress Mary Pickford, died from drinking bichloride of mercury. In 1921, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused of rape by Virginia Rappe. In 1922, director Desmond Taylor was found dead in his bungalow. The suspected murder was never solved.
SOURCES
"Hollywood, Ill., Would Have Name Changed," The New York Tribune, February 11, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"How Chicago's Neighborhood's Got their Names," by Nick Greene, November 3, 2015, www.mentalfloss.com/
"Six scandals that prove Hollywood was just as screwed up back in the day as it is now," www.thoughtful.thinking.thoughts.wordpress.com/
