Events for April 2023

Our next Zoom chapter meeting on Thursday, April 20, at 7 p.m. Central Time will feature Karen Kortsch, a member of our NOW chapter. Karen recently attended the Conference on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City.  (That's her at the conference, second from right.)  Please plan to attend this meeting and learn about the UN, the annual CSW held at the UN, and why it matters. Click here to register ... Karen is a retired registered nurse who now devotes her time to volunteer work with several organizations including NOW. As a [...]

Please join the National Organization for Women for the Second Annual Feminist State of the Union, featuring five stupendous feminist leaders:  Hillary Rodham Clinton (needs no introduction!); Joseline Garcia, Co-Founder & Executive Director at UN-PAC; Dr. C. Nicole Mason, President and CEO Emeritus of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR); Margaret Haung, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Maya Wiley, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund; and Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Click here to register ... Click [...]

Please join Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, Personal PAC and Illinois NOW for Lobby Day.  It’s time to head back to Springfield to let our lawmakers know that reproductive rights must be at the top of the agenda this year. Click here to RSVP ... Personal PAC will be coordinating transportation between Chicago and Springfield and Planned Parenthood Illinois Action will be providing training, lunch, T-SHIRTS, and everything you will need for a successful day. We'll be advocating for increased Title X funding, comprehensive sexual health education in schools, data privacy provisions, as well as putting an end to the deceptive practices [...]

We’re so happy to have Jan Schakowsky as one of the stupendous, always pro-choice people that represent us in Congress. Jan’s 2023 Annual Ultimate Women's Power Lunch, always an amazing event, will be held on Friday, May 5th, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago hotel at noon. Join us! Please join us for this inspiring event this year! Click here to join us. As Lauren Beth Gash reports, "Jan was my seatmate in the state legislature many years ago. I just love her, and was so honored to be one of the two co-chairs of her wildly successful (and sold-out) 3000-person Annual Power Lunch featuring Speaker of [...]