IL HR0382

Declares June 10, 2019 as a day to celebrate women's right to vote and Illinois's role in achieving that right in the United States

Illinois women's suffrage association was established in Earlville in 1855, just seven years after the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York

Illinois enacted a law in 1891 allowing women to vote for elective school offices and passed the Presidential Suffrage Bill in 1913 giving women the right to vote in federal and municipal elections

Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi River to grant women the right to vote for President of the United States following the 1913 law

Illinois became the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment on June 10, 1919, one hour prior to Wisconsin, leading the way for the three-fourths of states needed to ratify the amendment, which became part of the Constitution on August 26, 1920