ge Amendment. In celebration
a jubilee banquet was held on June 24 at the Hotel LaSalle, Mrs. Trout
presiding, with Governor and Mrs. Lowden the guests of honor. Among
the speakers were the Governor, prominent members of the State
Legislature and the leading women suffragists.

In October the State convention was held in Chicago, with delegates
present from every section, and Mrs. Trout was re-elected president.
It was voted to continue to work for the speedy ratification of the
Federal Suffrage Amendment in other States and if this was not
obtained in 1920 to work for the full suffrage article in the new
constitution when it was submitted to the voters. At the convention of
the National American Association in St. Louis the preceding March the
Illinois association had extended an invitation to hold the next one
in Chicago, which was accepted. The State board called together
representatives from the principal organizations of women, which were
appointed to take charge of different days of the convention and
various phases of the work. Mrs. Trout and Mrs. McGraw were made
chairman and vice-chairman of the committee; Mrs. Samuel Slade,
recording secretary, was appointed chairman of the Finance Committee,
which raised the funds to defray all the expenses of this large
convention in February, 1920. [Full account in Chapter XIX, Volume V.]

A meeting of the State Board was called and a committee formed to get
as many women as possible to vote in November at the election for
President. Mrs. Trout was elected State chairman, Mrs. McGraw
vice-chairman, and Mrs. Albert Schweitzer, a member of the board, was
appointed Chicago chairman. The Woman's City Club, of which Mrs.
Joseph T. Bowen was president, took an active part in the campaign and
was the headquarters for the Chicago committee. In August in the midst
of the campaign came the joyful news that the 36th State had ratified
the Federal Amendment. A call was issued for the State convention to
be held in Chicago October 7-9, when the Illinois Equal Suffrage
Association, its work finished, disbanded, and its members formed a
State League of Women Voters, with Mrs. H. W. Cheney of Chicago as
chairman.

FOOTNOTES:

[42] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. J. W. McGraw,
eight years on the Board of Directors and six years Legislative
Chairman of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. She is under
obligations for many of the facts relative to the campaign of 1