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Cora Strayer: Chicago's First Female Private Eye

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Miss Cora Strayer’s Private Detective Agency
Miss Cora M. Strayer ran a detective agency on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1900s. She was awesome.

“‘A man could not laugh loud enough to make me hear him,’ the ‘colonel’ said serenely. ‘Nor do I know a man or of a man who would dare to laugh in my face.'”

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