A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.
Adele Hast is co-project director of the Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. She is author of Loyalism in Revolutionary Virginia: The Norfolk Area and the Eastern Shore, editor of International Directory of Company Histories and Who's Who in America, and associate editor of Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, 1976-1979.
Rima Lunin Schultz is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an adjunct faculty member of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. She is co- director of the Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago and president of the Chicago Area Women's History Conference, a not-for-profit educational association that offers public programs in women's history and produces books and curriculum materials. Her publications include The Church and the City: A Social History of 150 Years at Saint James, Chicago and "Woman's Work and Woman's Calling in the Episcopal Church: Chicago, 1880-1989," in Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Protestant Denomination, edited by Catherine M. Prelinger.