Category: Newsletter
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Meet Carole Simpson: Barrier-breaking Journalist
Carole Simpson was the first Black woman to anchor a major network newscast or as the three-time Emmy…
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Meet Susan F. King, Chicago Architect
Women do not play a bigger part in social housing, Susan said, but they do in the area…
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Losing Tim Black: A Personal Recollection
At the parties there were opportunities to talk . . . and to listen because, of course, Tim told…
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Alpha Suffrage Club Gets an Important Marker in Chicago
Founded in 1913 by Ida B. Wells-Barnett and several other suffragists in Chicago, the Alpha Suffrage Club played…
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Women Pioneers in Architecture
Several women with Chicago connections were entering the field of architecture long before it was common, or even…
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Remembering Richard Trumka
The death of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, an influential and inspirational leader, is a huge loss not only…
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SEIU Strikes For Improved Working Conditions
At 6:00 am on June 25, 2021, the SEIU Local 73 representatives of Cook County workers took to…







