Woman Made Gallery's Makers & Shakers Bash is an evening celebrating art and activism. LWV Chicago President Jane Ruby will be honored as the 2026 Shaker, an activist whose work moves communities towards equity and justice. Get tickets.

LWV Chicago partners with Election Protection (866-OUR-VOTE) to train volunteer poll watchers and station them at Chicago polling locations to make sure voters’ rights are protected.

Join us for our next training session! Register.

Join the Chicago Women's History Center, the League of Women Voters of Chicago, and partner organizations for a timely virtual conversation about the women’s suffrage movement in Illinois from 1869 to the passing of women’s suffrage in 1920.

Timed to coincide with the Chicago run of the acclaimed Broadway musical Suffs, this program explores the parallel stories of Alice Paul — immortalized in the show — and Catharine Waugh McCulloch, a Chicago lawyer and suffragist whose strategic brilliance helped secure women's voting rights in Illinois and beyond. McCulloch's story is told in the documentary Shall Men Vote (coming Jan 2027), which reveals how Chicago and Illinois were central to the national suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for equality for Black and White women alike.

Together, these two stories illuminate the courage, coalition-building, and persistence required to make progress — and what it means to carry that work forward today.

Presenter: Dr. Gwen Jordan, Legal Historian

We'll explore what these histories teach us about today's urgent need to protect and preserve women's achievements, and open a conversation about next steps in the ongoing march toward justice and equality.

Format: Free virtual event via Zoom

In honor of the sixth anniversary of the passing of Congressman John Lewis, kick off the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action at Chicago's candlelight vigil, where we will come together to show that the fight for voting rights continues. 

Join Alds. Matt Martin, Daniel La Spata, Byron Sigcho Lopez, Anthony Quezada, and grassroots organizations for a town hall on the Chicago Fair Elections Ordinance—a small-dollar matching program that’ll increase participation in local elections, empowering regular people to run for office.

Chicago is currently the largest US city without publicly financed elections. This town hall is an opportunity to learn about the ordinance and discuss what Fair Elections would mean for you and your community.

RSVP is highly recommended but not required. Program begins at noon.