Records, 1924-

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Records, 1924-

The collection contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, bylaws, legislation, studies, annual reports, and photographs from 1924 to the present. The materials pertain to the formation of the League, Chicago City government, civil liberties, foreign policy, refugees, and water conservation.

37.5 linear ft.

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League of Women Voters of Chicago

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The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National Women's Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special concern to women. Such issue...