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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 local offices. Suffragists continued to fight for full suffrage in the state. Finally, Illinois became the first ...
Illinois Equal Franchise Society. [10] Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [11] Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs. [6] Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA). [12] [13] [14] Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909. [15] Naperville Equal Suffrage Club ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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