The AAUW-Illinois convention was held at Elgin Community College on Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Though the Illinois Division (as the state organizations were called) was organized in 1924, the Chicago, Inc., Branch was chartered in 1889 followed by Champaign-Urbana (1901), Springfield (1906), Rock Island-Moline (1909), Aurora (1919), Elgin (1920), Quincy (1923), and Monmouth (1924). My branch, Waukegan, was chartered in 1928.
The focus of the state convention is about learning and building skills to be better advocates for AAUW's mission of advancing gender equity. Dr. Suzanne Chod, North Central College, talked about the how and why of ...
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