List of Illinois suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2020)

Groups

Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903

Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913.^[1]
Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.^[2]
Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894.^[3]^[4]
Chicago Teachers' Federation.^[5]
Chicago Woman's Club.^[6]
Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society.^[7]
Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888.^[8]
Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900.^[6]
Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855.^[9]
Ella Flagg Young Club.^[5]
Illinois Equal Franchise Society.^[10]
Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[11]
Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.^[6]
Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA).^[12]^[13]^[14]
Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909.^[15]
Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888.^[16]
National Woman's Party.^[17]
The Ossoli Club, formed in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1894.^[18]
Sorosis.^[19]
Springfield Suffrage Association.^[20]
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WTCU) of Illinois.^[3]
Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).^[21]

Suffragists

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

Sadie Lewis Adams (Chicago).^[22]
Jane Addams.^[23]
Mary A. Ahrens (Chicago).^[24]
Royal Allen.^[25]
Susan E. Allen Cannon (Galesburg).^[26]
Naomi Talbert Anderson (Chicago).^[27]
Susan Look Avery (Chicago).^[6]
Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer. (Chicago).^[28]
Eugenia M. Bacon.^[15]
Laura Beasley (Chicago).^[29]
Ella G. Berry (Chicago).^[30]
Kizziah J. Bills (Chicago).^[31]
Anna Blount (Oak Park).^[32]
Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe).^[33]
Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago).^[27]
Myra Colby Bradwell.^[34]
Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago).^[35]
Virginia Brooks (Chicago).^[36]
Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria).^[37]
Laura Robinson Campbell (East St. Louis)^[38]
Agnes Chase.^[27]
Mary C. Clarke (Chicago).^[39]
George E. Cole (Chicago).^[15]
Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago).^[6]
Prudence Crandall.^[19]
Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago).^[40]
Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale).^[27]
Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale).^[27]
Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County).^[20]
Cornelia De Bey (Chicago).^[41]
Margaret Dobyne.^[42]
Kate N. Doggett (Chicago).^[43]
Elvira Downey (Clinton).^[8]
Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago).^[44]
Elizabeth Hawley Everett (Highland Park).^[45]
Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago).^[27]
Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago).^[46]
Samuel Fallows (Chicago).^[47]
Clara M. Farson (St. Charles).^[48]
Henry B. Favill (Chicago).^[47]
Lucy Flower.^[49]
Antoinette Funk (Chicago).^[17]
Sophie Gibb (Decatur).^[8]
Catherine Goggin (Chicago).^[5]
Harriet Grim (Chicago).^[8]
Emily M. Gross.^[6]
Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville).^[50]
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston).^[34]^[5]
Margaret Haley (Chicago).^[5]
Effie Henderson (Bloomington).^[51]
Mary Emma Holmes (Chicago)^[52]
Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago).^[53]
Kate Hughes (Table Grove).^[54]^[49]
Alta Hulett.^[34]
Adelaide Johnson.^[55]
Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford).^[56]
Mary Jane Richardson Jones (Chicago).^[57]
Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago).^[47]
Florence E. Kollock (Chicago).^[58]
Mary H. Krout (Chicago).^[56]
Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield).^[20]
Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago).^[59]
Mary Livermore.^[19]
Elizabeth F. Long (Barry).^[5]
Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago).^[44]
Andrew MacLeish (Chicago).^[47]
Anna A. Maley.^[60]
Ellen A. Martin (Lombard).^[14]
Mary Mather (Sangamon County).^[20]
Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston).^[61]
J. Howard Moore (Chicago).^[62]
Mary Foulke Morrisson (Chicago).^[63]
Henry Neil (Chicago).^[47]
Agnes Nestor (Chicago).^[13]
Anna E. Nicholes (Chicago).^[15]^[64]
S. Grace Nicholes (Chicago).^[65]
Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield).^[20]
Fannie H. Rastall.^[56]
Harriet Reed (Springfield).^[20]
Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville).^[19]
Mabel Sippy (Chicago).^[18]
Julia Holmes Smith.^[49]
Eva Munson Smith.^[56]
Elmira E. Springer.^[15]
Belle Squire (Chicago).^[36]
Ida Staggall.^[66]
Ella S. Stewart.^[10]^[60]
Mary Thomas.^[67]
Grace Wilbur Trout (marked with x) after her return from Springfield and the campaign for women's votes, June 14, 1913
Helen Todd (Chicago).^[68]
Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park).^[69]
Elsie Unterman (Chicago).^[27]
Mary L. Walker.^[70]
Clara Barck Welles (Chicago).^[71]
Ida B. Wells (Chicago).^[27]
Frances Willard.^[19]
Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago).^[27]
Jennie Willing (Rockford).^[72]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Places

Leland Hotel (Springfield).^[4]
Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).^[77]

Publications

The Agitator, created in 1869.^[78]

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

Anti-suffragists

Groups

Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897.^[8]

People

Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).^[84]
Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).^[8]
Levy Mayer (Chicago).^[85]
Emma Susan Gillett Oglesby (Elkhart).^[51]
S. M. Nickerson^[86]
J. C. Fairfield^[86]
Geo. W. Smith^[86]
Ralph N. Isham^[86]
A. T. Galt^[86]
WM. Eliot Furness^[86]
Francis Lackner^[86]
Mary Pomeroy Green^[86]

See also

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