He worked on local farms and in area coal mines before joining the United States Navy and serving in Europe during World War I.
Due to Illinois's cumulative voting scheme at the time, the removal would have near-guaranteed Romano's election.
After World War II, Perry was unsuccessful in efforts to be elected as a state senator and a congressman, largely because he was a Democrat in heavily Republican DuPage County.
At the end of the trial, which at that time was the longest trial before a federal court jury in United States history, Perry dismissed all charges against law enforcement officials who had been sued for $47 million in a wrongful-death suit when jurors could not reach a verdict.
[5] Perry also presided over what has to be considered one of the most egregiously biased cases in the annals of the federal court system, the case in which the federal prosecutor in Chicago, conspired with the US Secret Service to silence by prosecution and conviction Abraham Bolden, the first Black ever to serve on the Secret Services presidential detail.
In a hearing at the US Seventh Court of Appeals, when Sikes was given an opportunity to respond to a charge of suborning perjury, he took the Fifth Amendment.
Diggers uncovered more bones, and Perry then gave Wheaton College permission to excavate the site.
Geologists eventually found more than 100 of the mastodon's 211 bones, including the complete skull with well-preserved teeth.
[6] Geologists eventually reassembled the mastodon skeleton, and it is now on display at Wheaton College's Meyer Science Center.