Women's History Month

Women’s History Month: Jeannette Rankin, first woman seated in Congress

“I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.”

Remembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons

Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.

Today in women’s history: Redstockings holds abortion speak out

Today in women’s history: Hull House co-founder Ellen Starr born

In 1896, Starr joined the garment workers' strike in support of the workers. She was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the Women's Trade Union League in 1904.

Today in women’s history: Betty Allen, steel town to opera, is born

Growing up in a working class community, Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Allen heard opera on the streets, from neighbors' radios.