Storied Chicago

in 1974, more than 3,000 women from across the country met in Chicago for a two-day conference to form the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Discussions for the organization had begun the previous summer, led by labor union leaders Olga M. Madar of Detroit and Addie Wyatt of Chicago. CLUW sought to organize women, increase their participation in unions, advance workplace fairness, and ensure working women’s voices in the political process. Today, 50 years later, the CLUW has members from 70 international and national unions across the United States.

Learn more about the CLUW and women’s labor actions in our online experience “ : Chicago Women and the Vote”: https://ow.ly/kzBC50QXTeF // Group of Coalition of Labor Union Women picketers with “No Wage Controls Roll Back Prices” sign, c. 1975. CHM, ICHi-039912

Chicago Underground 1. In the spring of 1992, maintenance crews in Chicago found that a mysterious flood was filling the downtown area's extensive system of subbasements.