Suffragist leader Elizabeth V. Eddy paved the way in our hometown. The 1818 Illinois Constitution granted voting rights only to “white, male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one . . . .” But within 50 years, the women’s rights movement took hold across the country, including in Illinois. I’ve written before on the 1848 Seneca… Continue reading The first woman to run for elected office in Kewanee
