Brown Line

Click on each woman's name to learn more.

Kimball
Chantay Moore (born ~1980) President of the American Indian Center in Chicago

Kedzie
Irene Hernandez (1915 -1997) First Latinx on the Cook County Board of Commissioners

Francisco
Margaret Frisbie (born ~1975) Executive Director, Friends of the Chicago River

Rockwell
Helene Heman Thorhaug (1908-2003) Artist/interior designer who collaborated with R. Buckminster Fuller

Western
Rachel Barton Pine (born 1974) Concert violinist

Damen
Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009) Modernist sculptor

Montrose
Jackie Taylor (born 1951) Actress and founder of the Black Ensemble Theater

Irving Park
Myrla Baldonado (born 1955) Organizer of household workers

Addison
Jeanne Gang (born 1964) Architect; founder of Studio Gang architecture and urban design firm

Paulina
Lucy Flower (1837-1921) Children's rights activist

Southport
Gladys Nilsson (born 1940) Artist; one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists

Belmont
Angie Lind Adorno Navedo (1951-2006) Community activist & Young Lords leader

Wellington
MK Czerwiec (Born ~1970) Nurse; graphic novelist; educator; co-founder of the field of Graphic Medicine

Diversey
Chi Che Wang (1894 – 1979) Biochemist; professor

Fullerton
Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) Antarctic researcher; DePaul University professor

Armitage
Ella Jenkins (Born 1924) Folk singer; “First Lady of Children’s Music”

Sedgwick
Viola Spolin (1906-1994) Educator; author; “Mother of Improvisational Theater”

Chicago
Emma Dryer (1835-1925) Founder of the May Institute which evolved into the Moody Bible Institute

Merchandise Mart
Archange Ouilmette (1764 - 1840) Liaison between the Potawatomi tribe and early white settlers of the land that would become Chicago