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Article: A Woman's Kind of Town // Celebrating the Women Who Made Our City Work
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 1994
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The City of Big Shoulders always has had a masculine image: big
skyscrapers, mammoth engineering projects, steelmaking and wheeling
and dealing. But it's also the City of Powerful Curves, since 50
percent of Chicago's population also has worked (often unnoticed) to
make the city great.
Women's contributions to Chicago history are vast, but not all
that easy to find. For instance, there isn't one public statue of a
real woman in any city park - only sculptures of mythical females.
This situation will be remedied when a statue of Jane Addams is
erected in a park at the base of Navy Pier.
So, it's necessary to dig to get to the whole truth. Throughout
Chicago's history, women have run ...