Correspondence, newsletters, minutes, memoranda, reports, topical files, membership lists, financial records, newspaper clippings, program announcements, and other office files of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, established in Chicago in 1914 to promote the interests of women lawyers and the enactment of legislation for the common good and the administration of justice as it pertains to women. Includes minutes of the executive board's regular monthly meetings and WBAI committee minutes and reports (1926-1989). Topics include child support, marital property regulations, divorce procedures, child custody, and reproductive rights, as well as judicial merit selection, an ethics code for the Illinois legal profession, and mandatory continuing education for lawyers.
