Chicago Clubwomen: United Visions

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Chicago Clubwomen: United Visions

Description

Historian Maureen Flanagan argues in "Seeing with Their Hearts" that women reformers in Chicago shared a united vision of a better Chicago. They believed in a city of safe homes, clean streets, and social justice. The 1912 President’s Report illustrates how women’s clubs worked together to clean up municipal politics and establish services for women and children in the city. In addition, clubs like the CWC funded, administered, and worked with settlement houses like the Jane Addams Hull House, Industrial School, and Model Lodging House. By publishing pamphlets like “City Ordinances You Ought to Know,” the CWC worked to inform the public about municipal laws. At times, however, women’s reform work came into conflict with city officials and their visions of a politically reformed Chicago.

Source

Flanagan, Maureen A. Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
O’Connor, Nellie Johnson. “Report of the President of the Chicago Woman’s Club, April 27, 1912.” Loyola University Chicago. Women & Leadership Archives Chicago Woman’s Club. Box 4, Folder 5.
Chicago Woman's Club. "City Ordinances You Ought to Know." December, 1916. Loyola University Chicago. Women & Leadership Archives Chicago Woman’s Club. Box 15, Folder 4.
Minutes: Chicago Woman’s Club Records, Chicago History Museum.

Files

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1912 President's Report
"City Ordinances You Ought To Know"
"We are proud of the elder sisters and rejoice in their strength"
"Continued demand for the little pamphlet, 'Ordinances You Ought to Know'"
"The chief assets of the city, a constant <br /> force for good in its affairs"
"The mills of the courts grind the human grist"

Citation

“Chicago Clubwomen: United Visions,” Loyola University Chicago Digital Special Collections, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.lib.luc.edu/specialcollections/items/show/913.