On April 8, 1928, 26-year-old clerk Mildred Jakobsen, a Chicago native and daughter of Norwegian immigrants, "took sick" at work. She died there before she could be taken to a hospital.
On May 4, the Cook County coroner concluded that Mildred had died from complications of a criminal abortion, and recommended the identification and arrest of the person or persons responsible.
Nobody was ever held accountable for Mildred's death, according to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database.
It's likely that she availed herself of one of the many doctors or midwives who advertised abortions in Chicago newspapers, using thinly -veiled language such as "female complaints," "private treatments for women," or "relief for delayed periods."
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