| 1818 |
- 1818
- Act of Congress creates the state of Illinois
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| 1820 |
- 1822
- Christiana Holmes Tillson
moves to Montgomery County, Illinois
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| 1830 |
- 1832
- Black Hawk War
- Mother Sough arrives in Peoria
- 1835
- Monticello Seminary, the first Illinois institution for higher education
of women is founded at Godfrey
- Kate Perry moves to Fulton
County, Illinois
- 1836
- Sophia M. Chase moves to Illinois
- 1837
- Mahala Blounts Mills moves
to Fulton County, Illinois
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| 1840 |
- 1842
- Emma Hale Smith forms the
Female Relief Society in the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo
- 1844
- Illinois women form first anti-slavery society
- 1845
- Jacksonville Female Academy (established in 1830) receives a charter
- 1846
- Mexican War
- 1847
- Illinois Female College in Jacksonville is granted a charter
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- 1850
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- 1851
- Illinois Central Railroad Company issued a charter
- 1853
- First State Fair held in Springfield
- 1854
- Sarah M. Hayden's first novel is published
- 1857
- Amateur des Belles Lettres Literary
Society founded at Monmouth College
- Illinois State Board of Education formed
- Illinois State Normal School established
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| 1860 |
- 1861
- Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the United States
- Civil War begins
- 1862
- Jennie Hodger (A.K.A. Albert Cashier) enlists as a man in Company
G, 95th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and fights in 40 battles over the
next 3 years.
- 1863
- Mary Ann Ball "Mother" Bickerdyke is the sole women nursing
wounded Union soldiers at the battle of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee
- 1865
- Civil War ends
- Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1869
- National Woman Suffrage Association founded by Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- Myra Bradwell's application to the Illinois Bar is refused; Bradwell
v. Illinois was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Bradwell
lost.
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| 1870 |
- 1870
- Illinois Wesleyan University admits first female students
- 1871
- Great Chicago Fire
- 1874
- Ten Illinois women are elected County Superintendents of Schools.
This election followed an 1873 statute recognizing women's eligibility
to hold school office.
- Sarah Raymond becomes superintendent of Bloomington school district
- 1877
- Louisa McCall becomes Director
of First National Bank of Canton, Illinois
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| 1880 |
- 1881
- Aurora is first city in the world to light streets with electricity
- 1882
- Mahala Phelps becomes
the first librarian of Macomb Public Library.
- 1886
- Haymarket Riot at Chicago
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| 1890 |
- 1890
- Myra H. Bradwell is finally admitted to the Illinois bar.
- 1891
- Ellen Annette Martin uses a loophole in the 1869 Lombard town charter
to be the first woman to vote in the state of Illinois.
- 1893
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
publishes A Red Record presenting detailed information about
lynching in the American South.
- 1895
- Elizabeth Miner graduates
from Medical College
- 1898
- Death of Frances E. Willard, eminent lecturer and social reformer;
Willard was the first dean of women at Northwestern University
- 1898
- Spanish-American War
- 1899
- Amanda Berry Smith opens Illinois' first orphanage for African American children in Harvey, Illinois.
- 1899
- Justinia Carter Ford graduates from Hering Medical College, Chicago.
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| 1900 |
- 1902
- Annie Turnbo Malone
moves Poro College to Chicago
- 1903
- Mary Curtis Wheeler named
to board of directors of the State Association of Graduate Nurses
- 1904
- Harriet Vittum begins work
at the Northwestern Settlement House
- 1908
- Caroline Grote named Dean
of Women, Western Illinois State Teachers College
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| 1910 |
- 1913
- Illinois Women's Suffrage Act passes making Illinois the first state
east of the Mississippi River to allow women the right to vote in Presidential
elections.
- 1914
- Josie Westfall's election to
City Judge is overturned by Illinois State Supreme Court
- 1917
- World War I begins
- 1918
- Influenza Epidemic
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