August 28, 2013Women's Equality Day Celebration"Ballots, Babes, & Beer"This year the Coalition is happy to invite two speakers for our annual Women's Equality Day celebration. Deborah Fandrei, Curator of the Raupp Museum in Buffalo Grove will present BALLOTS, BABES AND BEER -- a look at the women's suffrage movement from an Illinois perspective.Katherine Hamilton-Smith, Director […]
August 14, 2014Women's Equality Day Celebration"Leveling the Playing Field"The Coalition will celebrate Women's Equality Day earlier this year to encourage attendance fromhigh school teachers and students, along with its member organizations.Leveling the Playing Field: "Do the unwritten rules hold women back?"This FREE Seminar will feature video clips depicting women's equality or lack of, followed by a video lecture […]
August 25, 2015Women's Equality Day Celebration"Have Courage, Word Hard"Lake County Women Who Made HistoryTue., Aug. 25, 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm at Warren-Newport Library, O'Plaine Rd. near Washington)Presenter: Diana Dretske, Lake County Historian, Collections Coordinator, Lake County Discovery MuseumWomen have been reformers, suffragettes and history-makers. Hear true stories of their noteworthy accomplishments and sometimes notorious deeds. […]
August 24, 2017Women's Equality Day Celebration"Women of the Civil War"The annual Equality Day, sponsored by the Lake County Women’s Coalition, was celebrated on Thursday, Aug. 24, at 7:00 p.m. at the Warren Newport Public Library community room in Gurnee. The program included a dramatic book reviewer Jenny Riddle, who captivated the 100+ audience as she […]
August 2018Women's Equality Day Celebration"One Woman, One Vote."Join us to celebrate Women's Equality Day on August 23, 2018, at Warren Newport Library.The Lake County Women’s Coalition invites you to a free showing of “One Woman, One Vote.”This PBS documentary brings to life through actual photographs and period music the 70-year battle for woman suffrage that […]
August 2019Women's Equality Day CelebrationFrom Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s electrifying call for women’s rights in 1848 to the passionate outcries of women involved in the Women’s Marches of today, this program endeavors to put the issue of Women’s Equality into a culturally, historically, politically, and socially relevant context of the United States and beyond. Lake County Women’s […]
Virtual Tour of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument - A 45-minute tour of the museum exhibits using photographs of the collection of furniture, textiles, artwork, and other historical artifacts. Hosted by Warren-Newport Public Library. We share the story of Alice Paul's political savvy and the National Woman's Party's transgressive, confrontational tactics in support of woman suffrage.
Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union:The Forgotten Story in 19th Century Women's ActivismCome hear the story of one of the world’s most influential women and the organization she led in a talk given by Lori Osborne, Director of the Frances Willard House Museum in Evanston, Illinois. Her talk Frances Willard and the Woman’s […]
Lake County Women’s Coalition In Recognition of Women’s Equality Day presents Heidi Stevens Thursday, August 24, 2023 Heidi Stevens is a Chicago-based writer and the Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, which works to provide parents, caregivers, and communities the knowledge and tools to […]
Chicago cabaret artists Anita Kallen and Catherine Thomson (HERStoryMusicalShows.com) prove once again that "well-behaved women seldom make history." They celebrate - in song and HERstory - the rabble-rousing pioneers who won the right to vote for the women of America and those fighting to preserve it today. With music by Sondheim, Lennon & McCartney, the […]
Round Lake High School’s Ghostlight Readers Theatre and special guests will give a performance that leaps from comic to tragic as it surveys the lives of the women who have served (and avoided serving) as First Lady, from Martha Washington up through Jill Biden. A biographical, meta-theatrical, genre-bending ride through race, gender, and every-thing else your […]
"Tales From The Peach Orchard: Where Women's Baseball History Was Made" - presented by Dr. Cathy Headley, professor of kinesiology, Rockford University