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Title
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.