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Board Members for 2024-25President
Jane Hastings 2023-2025 Vice President Judith Crown 2024-2026 Tina Birnbaum 2023-2025 Beverly Tuck 2024-2026 Treasurer Sue Jaffee 2024-2026 Secretary Mary Ann Porucznik 2023-2025 Directors Belinda Lutz-Hamel 2023-2025 Beverly Graham 2024-2025 Barbara Paterick 2024-2026 Michelle Fitzhenry 2023-2025 Penny Wallingford 2024-2026 Joanne Susmilch 2024-2026 |
Who We Are |
The League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest, a non-partisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influences public policy through citizen education and advocacy. We present unbiased non-partisan information about elections, the voting process, and issues through our Voter Service activities. And after we study an issue, we use our positions to advocate for or against particular policies in the public interest through our Advocacy activities.
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Our History |
When women cast their first votes in 1920, the League was there to provide accurate, unbiased election information. The League of Women Voters of the United States was founded at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on February 14, 1920, in anticipation of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended to women the right to vote.
The Illinois League was organized that same year and the League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest just four years later, at the Oak Park Arms Hotel on May 13, 1924. |