We wish you a very Happy Holiday! To celebrate we wish to invite all our members to a Holiday Party at the Center on Friday December 13 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. This is a catered event with wine and cheese.

Chicago Women's History Center is working with Bethel Mennonite Community Church to support the launch of a Chicago WILPF Chapter. WILPF has played an instrumental role writing policy, facilitating local actions for peace and freedom around the globe. Jane Addams, a social reformer and suffragist from Chicago was one of the co-founders and President of the WILPF International.

Rev. Zenobia Sowell and Carron Little are hosting the monthly meetings on the Third Friday of every month. The next meeting will be at Chicago Women’s History Center, 410 S. Michigan Ave, Suite 403 from 5pm - 7pm.

This event is a special author event with Essence McDowell, co-author of Lifting As They Climbed - Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago on Sunday October 27 from 3pm - 5pm.

We are thrilled to partner with our neighbors Chicago Opera Theater to present Come Fly With Me - A Night of Song & Stories about the Right to Vote with cabaret singers HERstory Duo as part of the Fine Arts Building Second Friday event. This program will be activating the history of Illinois women’s suffrage and voting rights at this timely moment.

Chicago Women's History Center is working with Bethel Mennonite Community Church to support the launch of a Chicago WILPF Chapter. WILPF has played an instrumental role writing policy, facilitating local actions for peace and freedom around the globe. Jane Addams, a social reformer and suffragist from Chicago was one of the co-founders and President of the WILPF International.

Rev. Zenobia Sowell and Carron Little are hosting the monthly meetings on the Second Friday of every month. The next meeting will be at Bethel Mennonite Community Church, 1434 S. Laflin St, Chicago 60608 from 5pm - 7pm.

This event includes a presentation by Margot McMahon about The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, and a documentary called Oracle of Bronzeville, the making of the Gwendolyn Brooks Monument by Rana Segal. CWHC is delighted to partner with Epiphany Center for the Arts on this special program.

Chicago Women’s History Center is hosting a social gathering at our Center to celebrate Women’s Equality Day. This is at an important time in women’s rights history with the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) being ratified by thirty-eight States. League of Women Voters is calling on Biden to publish the ERA on Monday so fingers crcssed we are celebrating this historic moment together.

To discuss the ERA we have two guest speakers Dr. Eileen Murphy, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and the Illinois attorney, Michele Thorne who wrote the ABA Resolution 601 article in 2022.

This event is organized to that all the CWHC members who have supported us in this transitional period moving from Logan Square to the Fine Arts Building. It is also to thank our new CWHC President, Maureen Hellwig, author of A Neighbor Among Neighbors: Erie Neighborhood House: 150 Years as a Home with No Borders.

We are hosting an important panel conversation on Whatever happened to AIDS? Chicago Women Writing about the Other Pandemic. This conversation will be facilitated by Victoria Noe, author of the book Fag Hags, Divas and Moms with special guests, Rae Lewis-Thornton and Rosa E. Martínez Colón, MS. The panel conversation will be followed by a book signing and light refreshments.

Celebrating our first Open House showcasing our new location in the Fine Arts Building, suite 403 on Sunday March 17 from 2pm to 4pm. Founded in 1971, CWHC celebrated its 50th anniverary recently and embarked on an exciting new era for the organization. During the past year we have undergone many changes including establishing a more public space for the organization and hiring an Executive Director for the first time.

Screening of the new film documentary about the making of the Ida B. Wells monument by Richard Hunt at the Vivian Harsh Collection at Woodson Regional Library, 9525 N. Halsted Street, Chicago

CWHC celebrated our 50th Anniversary on Thurs. Oct. 27, 5:00 - 7:30 pm at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. This fundraiser for CWHC included a special program, speaker, printed anniversary book, appetizers, wine, live music, fun, festivities, and lots of friends and supporters of CWHC. The speaker for 50 & Forward was Esther Nieves who is a vision driven leader in the non-profit sector with experience working with grassroots, statewide, and national organizations.

This special program was also online with technical support from the Vivian Harsh Collection at Woodson Regional Library, 9525 N. Halsted Street, Chicago

This Women’s History Month program will feature Cheryl Johnson, pictured here, who will speak about her mother, Hazel Johnson’s work as the Mother of Environment Justice in Altgeld Gardens Housing Project on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

CWHC hosts this virtual program on our new "Twitch" channel to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Woman Suffrage Amendment in 1920. On August 26th at 7:00 pm click on https://www.twitch.tv/cwhc to join the broadcast.

Join CWHC for this 100th anniversary event featuring Michelle Duster speaking on Black Suffragists: Representation in Public Spaces, and Kathleen Thompson on Always There: Black Women and Suffrage.

Panel discussion on Lesbians and Feminism with activists involved in the community in the 1970s and 80s. Moderated by Tracy Baim.

Book launch for The World of Juliette Kinzie, Chicago Before the Fire by Dr. Ann Durkin Keating at the Chicago Women’s History Center. Reception with refreshments and book signing will follow.