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This is a list of Illinois suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Illinois.

Groups

Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903
  • Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913.
  • Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.
  • Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894.
  • Chicago Teachers' Federation.
  • Chicago Woman's Club.
  • Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society.
  • Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888.
  • Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900.
  • Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855.
  • Ella Flagg Young Club.
  • Illinois Equal Franchise Society.
  • Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
  • Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.
  • Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA).
  • Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909.
  • Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888.
  • National Woman's Party.
  • The Ossoli Club, formed in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1894.
  • Sorosis.
  • Springfield Suffrage Association.
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union (WTCU) of Illinois.
  • Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).

Suffragists

Susan E. Allen of Galeburg, Illinois in 1922
Susan E. Allen of Galeburg, Illinois, in 1922

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

  • Martin B. Bailey.
  • Charles Bogardus.
  • James Bradwell.
  • Charles H. Carmon (Forrest).
  • Orrin N. Carter.
  • Miles B. Castle.
  • Albert C. Clark.
  • Michael H. Cleary.
  • William A. Compton.
  • Reuben W. Coon.
  • John M. Curran.
  • Edward C. Curtis.
  • George W. Curtis.
  • Samuel A. Ettelson.
  • Isaiah T. Greenacre.
  • George W. Harris.
  • Logan Hay.
  • Hugh S. Magill.
  • Walter Clyde Jones.
  • Kent E. Keller.
  • Walter I. Manny.
  • Medill McCormick.
  • Willard McEwen.
  • Thomas J. McMillan.
  • Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park).
  • Barratt O'Hara.
  • W. Duff Piercy.
  • Murray F. Tuley.
  • Richards S. Tuthill.
  • Emil N. Zolla (Chicago).

Places

  • Leland Hotel (Springfield).
  • Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).

Suffragists campaigning in Illinois

Mabel Vernon speaks on the corner of E. Van Buren St and South Michigan Ave in Chicago on June 16, 1916
Mabel Vernon speaks on the corner of E. Van Buren St and South Michigan Ave in Chicago on June 16, 1916

Anti-suffragists

Groups

  • Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897.

People

  • Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).
  • Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).
  • Levy Mayer (Chicago).
  • Emma Oglesby (Elkhart).

See also

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