Women's Bar Association of Illinois

1886

Catherine Waugh McCulloch is admitted to the Illinois bar.

1890

McCulloch becomes President of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association campaigning for votes for women.

1891

Illinois law allows women to vote in school elections.

1893

McCulloch drafts a bill, introduced into the legislature, providing for women’s suffrage in presidential and certain local elections that were not limited to male voters by the Illinois Constitution.

1910 

Illinois suffragettes take their message directly to the people touring Illinois in“ horseless carriages.”

1913

Law proposed by McCulloch passed by legislature giving women partial suffrage, only in presidential and municipal elections. Illinois becomes the first state east of Mississippi to grant women suffrage in a presidential election.

1914

WBAI founded.

1916

Suffrage demonstrations in Chicago.

1916 - 1920

McCulloch is President of WBAI.

1919

Illinois is the first state to ratify the 19^th Amendment to U.S. constitution.
Women have the right to vote.