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Take a look back at 75 years of broadcasting in Chicago, from the biggest stories to the captivating moments to history made. We are marking a major milestone here at WMAQ.
18 mar 2015 · From the late 1860s to the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920, Chicago boasted a thriving women's suffrage movement. Most of us know the stories of local luminaries and suffragists Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells. What about Myra Bradwell? Florence Kelley? Mary Fitzbutler Waring?
29 wrz 2023 · The 1920s brings a whole new flood of WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS women choosing to leave home and go to work, joining up with the thousands of working class women who are, and long have been, already there. By the 1920s, 8.2 million women work outside the home; they account for some 20% of the workforce.
2 kwi 2009 · The entirely women‐run world’s fairs, in miniature, staged annually in Chicago in the 1920s belie this interpretation and evince women’s determination to utilize the format of the world’s fair to reshape public opinion about women’s roles.
28 lut 2024 · NBC 5 News reporter Lexi Sutter visits Nobody’s Darling, a one-of-a-kind cocktail bar in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood started up by two women and established to be an LGBTQ+...
13 gru 2020 · If you covered crime in 1920s Chicago, you knew her: a short woman who dressed like a fashionable flapper, never took off her hat, and would probably beat you to the juiciest story in town. Her name was Ione Quinby—an intrepid “girl reporter” who helped pave the way for women in journalism.
Summary. In 1919, four million workers launched the greatest strike wave in American history. Boston policemen, New England telephone operators, textile workers up and down the East Coast, most of the workingmen and women in Seattle, 450,000 coal miners, and 365,000 steelworkers nationwide led an offensive in which more than one in five ...
