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This group held annual conventions and petitioned various governmental bodies in Illinois for women's suffrage. On June 19, 1891, women gained the right to vote for school offices. However, it wasn't until 1913 that women saw expanded suffrage. That year women in Illinois were granted the right to vote for Presidential electors and various ...
Women in Illinois were now able to vote for presidential electors and any local office not named by the state constitution. [28] Illinois became the first state to the east of the Mississippi River to give women the right to vote for the President. [28] Unfortunately, the fight to give Illinois women the vote had depleted the funds of ...
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
In total, Lear wrote and published 212 limericks, and he is still one of the best-known writers of limericks, even now. Many of his nonsense poems make great limericks for kids , but adults enjoy ...
A day after filing a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago and former detectives, Marilyn Mulero, the first and only woman in Illinois exonerated after being sent to death row, called on the ...
Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. An early Illinois women's suffrage organization was created by Susan Hoxie Richardson in 1855 in Earlville, Illinois. [132] Women in Illinois helped the war effort during the Civil War. [132]
Illinois’ Democratic leaders promised a vigorous defense — and potential court action — against any moves by President-elect Donald Trump to try to erode personal liberties or withhold ...
The Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention, popularly known as Con-Con, convened on December 8, 1969 and concluded on September 3, 1970. [1] The convention produced the 1970 Illinois Constitution , the state's first new constitution in 100 years, which the voters of Illinois approved in a special election in December 1970.