| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2024
|
Breana Bagley
|
Decatur
|
26
|
Miss Land of Lincoln
|
Dance
|
|
|
|
| 2023
|
Jessica Tilton[1]
|
Washington
|
25
|
Miss Quad Cities
|
Color Guard/Flag Performance, "The Call"
|
|
Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship
|
First woman in history to compete a flag performance as a talent at Miss America.
|
| 2022
|
Monica Nia Jones[2]
|
Chicago
|
26
|
Miss Windy City
|
Violin
|
Top 11
|
America's Choice
|
|
| 2021
|
Isabelle Hanson[3]
|
Glen Ellyn
|
25
|
Miss Northern Suburbs
|
Violin
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Illinois' Outstanding Teen 2013[4]
|
| 2019โ20[a]
|
Ariel Beverly[6][7]
|
Springfield
|
24
|
Miss East Central
|
Vocal
|
|
Equity & Justice Scholarship Award Finalist[8]
|
|
| 2018
|
Grace Khachaturian[9]
|
Champaign
|
21
|
Miss Capital City
|
Lyrical Dance, "You Raise Me Up"
|
|
|
Previously Miss Illinois' Outstanding Teen 2012[10]
|
| 2017
|
Abby Foster[11]
|
Danville
|
21
|
Miss East Central
|
Jazz Dance, Grease medley
|
Top 15[12]
|
America's Choice[12]
|
Former NFL cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts[13]
|
| 2016
|
Jaryn Franklin[citation needed]
|
East Moline
|
23
|
Miss Blackhawk Valley
|
Vocal, "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
|
|
STEM Scholarship Award
|
|
| 2015
|
Crystal Davis
|
Anna
|
22
|
Miss Southern Illinois
|
Vocal, "That's Life"
|
|
|
|
| 2014
|
Marisa Buchheit[15]
|
Chicago
|
24
|
Miss Chicago
|
Operatic Vocal, "Je veux vivre" from Romรฉo et Juliette
|
|
Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship[16]
|
|
| 2013
|
Brittany Smith
|
Elmhurst
|
23
|
Miss Northern Suburbs
|
Irish Step Dancing, "Lord of the Dance"
|
|
|
|
| 2012
|
Megan Jo Ervin[10]
|
Rushville
|
23
|
Miss Quincy
|
Dance, "Faithfully"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant
|
| 2011
|
Hannah Smith[17]
|
Huntley
|
20
|
Miss Windy City
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Palladio"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 2010
|
Whitney Thorpe-Klinsky
|
New Baden
|
22
|
Miss River to River
|
Tap Dance, "On the Dance Floor"
|
|
|
|
| 2009
|
Erin O'Connor
|
Evergreen Park
|
20
|
Miss Macomb
|
Ballet en Pointe, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody Remix"
|
|
|
|
| 2008
|
Katie Lorenz
|
Chicago
|
24
|
Miss Chicago
|
Lyrical Dance, "Footprints in the Sand"
|
|
|
|
| 2007
|
Ashley Hatfield[18]
|
Anna
|
24
|
Miss Heartland
|
Vocal, "To Love You More"
|
|
|
|
| 2006
|
Heidi Ekstrom
|
Mundelein
|
24
|
Miss Kane County
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Ride"
|
|
|
|
| 2005
|
Lauren Allen
|
Batavia
|
21
|
Miss Western Suburbs
|
Freestyle Gymnastics, "Rhythm of the Night"
|
|
|
|
| 2004
|
Michelle LaGroue
|
Naperville
|
24
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "I Know the Truth" from Aida
|
|
|
Previously held the title of Miss Illinois in 2002 after Harold was named Miss America 2003
|
| 2003
|
Andrea Fritz
|
Schaumburg
|
21
|
Lyrical Dance, "Dance With My Father"
|
|
|
|
| 2002
|
Michelle LaGroue
|
Naperville
|
|
Miss Tinley Park
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Harold won Miss America 2003
|
| Erika Harold
|
Urbana
|
22
|
Miss Land of Lincoln
|
Classical Vocal, "Habanera"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Interview Award
Preliminary On-stage Interview Award
Overall Interview Award
|
|
| 2001
|
Kristin Castillo
|
Macomb
|
18
|
Miss Macomb
|
Classical Violin, "Praeludium & Allegro"
|
|
|
|
| 2000
|
Jenny Powers
|
Andover, Massachusetts
|
21
|
Miss Northern Illinois
|
Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'"
|
|
Preliminary Talent Award
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Was eligible to compete for Miss Illinois as a student at Northwestern University
|
| 1999
|
Jade Smalls
|
Evanston
|
21
|
Miss Chicago
|
Classical Piano, "Etude in C Minor"
|
1st runner-up
|
|
|
| 1998
|
Amanda Jo Meadows
|
Sycamore
|
20
|
Miss Macomb
|
Baton, "Marรญa"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1997
|
Ashley Eisenhauer
|
Herrin
|
|
Miss John A. Logan
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Shindle won Miss America 1998
|
| Katherine Shindle
|
Evanston
|
20
|
Miss Lake-Cook
|
Vocal, "Don't Rain on My Parade"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1996
|
Tania Gibson
|
Lake Barrington
|
19
|
Miss Fox River Valley
|
Vocal, "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard
|
|
|
|
| 1995
|
Tracy Hayes
|
Wheaton
|
22
|
Miss Greater DuPage County
|
Vocal, "Tonight"
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1994
|
Chuti Tiu[19]
|
Chicago
|
24
|
Miss Kankakee
|
Classical Piano
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously America's Junior Miss 1987[20]
|
| 1993
|
Sara Martin[21]
|
Schaumburg
|
20
|
Miss Schaumburg
|
Vocal, "Hello, Young Lovers"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously America's Junior Miss 1990[22]
|
| 1992
|
Kathleen Farrell
|
Chicago
|
23
|
Miss Kankakee
|
Classical Piano, "Danza No. 5"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Sister of Miss New York 1984, Mary-Ann Farrell and Miss Florida 1985, Monica Farrell
Later Miss Illinois USA 1994
Top 10 at Miss USA 1994
Mother of Miss Ohio 2022, Elizabetta Nies
|
| 1991
|
Cheryl Majercik
|
Niles
|
26
|
Miss Chicago
|
Classical Vocal, "O Mio Babbino Caro"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Quality of Life Award
|
|
| 1990
|
Jaclyn Greer
|
Granite City
|
|
Miss Madison County
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Vincent won Miss America 1991
|
| Marjorie Vincent
|
Oak Park
|
25
|
Miss Kankakee
|
Classical Piano, Fantaisie-Impromptu
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1989
|
Jeri Lynn Zimmermann
|
Evanston
|
21
|
Miss Northwestern University
|
Vocal, "On My Own"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Best known for playing the Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager[23]
|
| 1988
|
Dawn Spicuzza
|
Collinsville
|
22
|
Miss Mississippi Valley
|
Vocal, "If I Loved You"
|
|
|
|
| 1987
|
Cindi Hodgkins
|
Schaumburg
|
22
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal Medley, "My Man" & "But the World Goes Round"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1986
|
Lisa Heussner
|
Pekin
|
21
|
Miss Pekin
|
Dramatic Interpretation, "Emily Dickinson, Portrait of a Poet"
|
|
|
|
| 1985
|
Karen Moncrieff
|
Chicago
|
21
|
Miss Northwestern University
|
Popular Vocal, "Through the Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles
|
|
|
|
| 1984
|
Ruth Booker
|
21
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "Kiss Me In the Rain"
|
|
|
|
| 1983
|
Rebecca Bush
|
24
|
Vocal, "It's My Turn"
|
|
|
Played Detective Katie Grant on Jake and the Fatman[citation needed]
|
| 1982
|
Jaleigh Jeffers
|
Mt. Carmel
|
21
|
Miss Southern Illinois
|
Piano, '"Bumble Boogie"
|
|
|
|
| 1981
|
Sandra Truitt
|
Evanston
|
25
|
Miss North Shore
|
Classical Vocal, "Prรจs des remparts de Sรฉville" from Carmen
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1980
|
Blythe Sawyer
|
Naperville
|
22
|
Miss Chicago
|
Classical Vocal, "The Jewel Song" from Faust
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1979
|
Elizabeth Russell
|
Pekin
|
20
|
Miss Heart of Illinois
|
Classical Vocal, "O Luce di Quest'Anima" from Linda di Chamounix
|
|
|
Assumed title after original winner, Shanna McNeill, was stripped of the title[24][25]
|
| 1978
|
Debra Carlson
|
Ottawa
|
19
|
Miss Ottawa
|
Flute, "Carnival of Venice"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1977
|
Nancy Beatty
|
Avon
|
22
|
Miss Macomb
|
Classical Vocal, "Voices of Spring"
|
|
|
|
| 1976
|
Betsy Jamison
|
Mundelein
|
24
|
Miss Lake County
|
Popular Vocal, "Who Will Buy?" from Oliver!
|
|
|
|
| 1975
|
Jean Waters
|
Tuscola
|
22
|
Miss Crossroads Country
|
Gymnastic Dance / Trampoline, "High School Cadets"
|
|
|
|
| 1974
|
Jean Ahern
|
Hinsdale
|
21
|
Miss Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Kitri's Variation" from Don Quixote
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1973
|
Colleen Metternich
|
Carthage
|
23
|
Miss Heart of Illinois
|
Piano, "Variations on a Twelve Note Theme"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1972
|
Carolyn Paulus
|
Elmhurst
|
20
|
Miss Macomb
|
Classical Vocal, "Glitter And Be Gay" from Candide
|
|
|
|
| 1971
|
Anita Pankratz
|
Chicago
|
21
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal / Piano, "Someone to Watch Over Me"
|
|
|
|
| 1970
|
Lynn Alexander
|
Loami
|
18
|
Miss Springfield
|
Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte"
|
|
|
|
| 1969
|
Dulcie Scripture
|
Elgin
|
20
|
Miss Elgin
|
Piano, "Khachaturian's Toccata"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1968
|
Sharon Mitchell
|
Westchester
|
19
|
Miss Bellwood-Westchester
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Ford won Miss America 1969
|
| Judith Ford
|
Belvidere
|
18
|
Miss Boone County
|
Acrobatic Dance & Trampoline, "The Blue Danube"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1967
|
Kathryn Myers
|
Aurora
|
20
|
Miss Fox Valley
|
Dramatic Reading from Ion
|
|
|
|
| 1966
|
Mary Lee Inzerello
|
Elk Grove
|
19
|
Miss Adams County
|
Modern Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1965
|
Kathleen Oros
|
Granite City
|
20
|
Miss Granite City
|
Popular Vocal, "Just You Wait" from My Fair Lady
|
|
|
|
| 1964
|
Patricia Quillen
|
North Aurora
|
21
|
Miss Fox Valley
|
Clarinet
|
|
|
Finalist at National Press Photographers' Pageant 1962[citation needed]
|
| 1963
|
Judith Schlieper
|
Decatur
|
20
|
Miss Decatur
|
Siamese Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1962
|
Donnalyn Freund
|
Winnetka
|
20
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "I Enjoy Being a Girl"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Pamela Gilbert
|
Carbondale
|
21
|
Miss Illinois
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
| 1961
|
Nancy Kesler
|
Oak Park
|
18
|
Miss Chicago
|
Modern Dance
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Jacqueline Bingert
|
Winthrop Harbor
|
21
|
Miss Illinois
|
Tap Dance & India Ink Sketching
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Margaret McDowell
|
Evanston
|
21
|
Miss Chicago
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Vicky Joyce Nutter
|
Vandalia
|
18
|
Miss Illinois
|
Presentation of Fashion Designs
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
| 1959
|
Carol Rubin
|
Chicago
|
18
|
Miss Chicago
|
Modern Jazz Dance
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Suzanne Ingeborg Johnson
|
Chicago
|
21
|
Miss Illinois
|
Vocal, "Hello, Young Lovers"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
| 1958
|
Audra Deckmann
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Dance
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Anita Ruth Olson
|
River Forest
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Piano, "Rhapsody in G Minor" by Johannes Brahms
|
|
|
| 1957
|
Bette Lieb
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Dramatic Monologue from Romeo and Juliet
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Jeannie Beacham
|
Downers Grove
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Drama, "The Great Debates"
|
|
|
| 1956
|
Sandra Jean Stuart
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Water Ballet Video Presentation
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Tillie Micheletto
|
Collinsville
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Vocal
|
|
|
| 1955
|
Florence Gallagher
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Semi-classical Vocal, "Love Is Where You Find It"
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Marian Elizabeth Cox
|
Oak Park
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Vocal, "If I Loved You"
|
|
|
| 1954
|
Regina Dombeck
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Dramatic Monologue from Mary of Scotland by Maxwell Anderson
|
Top 10
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Patsy Bruce
|
Carbondale
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
Miss Congeniality
|
| 1953
|
Carol Segermark
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Jacquie Dumbauld
|
Alton
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Piano / Dance
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Jo Hoppe
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Tap Dance
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Glenna Marie Pohly
|
Rock Falls
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Flute
|
|
|
| 1951
|
Adrianne Falcon
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal & Dance
|
Top 10
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Doris King
|
Granite City
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Dance
|
|
|
| 1950
|
Marjorie Adams
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Monologue, "To the Lovely Margaret"
|
Top 16
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Catherine Kleinschmidt
|
Granite City
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Vocal, "Come to the Fair"
|
|
|
| 1949
|
Teresa Giorgian
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "Jealousy"
|
Top 15
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Trudi Germi
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Classical Vocal, "Mon cลur s'ouvre ร ta voix"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
| 1948
|
Lois Nettleton
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Dramatic Monologue from Saint Joan
|
Top 15
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Viola Ruth Hutmacher
|
Quincy
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Classical Vocal, "Italian Street Song"
|
|
|
| 1947
|
Joan Hiatt
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "Kiss In the Dark"
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Maree Evans
|
Joliet
|
|
|
Dress Design & Art
|
|
|
| 1946
|
Cloris Leachman
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Comic Sketch, "One Man Radio Program"
|
Top 16
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Patricia Frye
|
Pekin
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Vocal / Tap Dance, "I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do"
|
Top 16
|
|
| 1945
|
Lee Mercer Wieland
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Monologue, "A Lesson With a Fan"
|
Top 13
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Beverly Long
|
Joliet
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1944
|
Elaine Steinbach
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Vocal, "You'll Never Know"
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Betty June King
|
Bloomington
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Acrobatic Dance, "Stardust"
|
Top 12
|
|
| 1943
|
Marjorie Nelson
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Rhythmic Ballet
|
Top 10
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Dorothy Belle Kohrt
|
Ottawa, Illinois
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
|
|
|
| 1942
|
Bette Brunk
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Hula, "Hawaiian War Chant"
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Patricia Hayes
|
Rochelle
|
|
Miss Illinois
|
Dramatic Recitation
|
Top 10
|
|
| 1941
|
No Illinois representative at Miss America pageant[26][27]
|
| 1940
|
| 1939
|
Ethel Lorraine Lodbell
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
Monologue, "From the Diary of a Contestant"
|
Top 15
|
|
No Miss Illinois
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1938
|
No Illinois representative at Miss America pageant[28][29]
|
| 1937
|
| 1936
|
Genevieve Anderson
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Arlene Causey
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Cook County
|
|
3rd runner-up
|
Best Model
|
| Virginia Moeller
|
Springfield
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1935
|
No Illinois representative at Miss America pageant[30]
|
| 1934
|
No national pageant was held[31]
|
| 1933
|
Lillian Mary Kroener
|
|
18
|
|
|
N/A
|
Disqualified because she resided in St. Louis, Missouri
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[31]
|
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
| 1928
|
| 1927
|
Myrtle Valsted
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
N/A[32]
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at national pageant
|
| Gladys Vile
|
Danville
|
|
Miss Danville
|
|
|
| Lois Delander
|
Joliet
|
16
|
Miss Illinois
|
Winner
|
|
| Anna G. Bernard
|
Springfield
|
|
Miss Springfield
|
|
|
| 1926
|
Mae Greene
|
Chicago
|
|
Miss Chicago
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| 1925
|
Margarita Gonzales
|
|
|
|
Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at national pageant
|
| Lucille Burns
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Elgin
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Miss Elgin
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| 1924
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Margaret Leigh
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Chicago
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Miss Chicago
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4th runner-up
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Multiple Illinois representatives
Contestants competed under local title at national pageant
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| Virginia Lipscomb
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Decatur
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Miss Decatur
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| 1923
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Corrine Dellefield[33]
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Chicago
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Miss Chicago
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Competed under local title at national pageant
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| 1922
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Georgia Hale[34]
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22
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Competed under local title at national pageant
Later starred in Charlie Chaplin's 1925 film, The Gold Rush,[35] and the 1926 silent film, The Great Gatsby[36]
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| 1921
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No Illinois representative at Miss America pageant [37] |
