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Children and Family

Order of the Committee on Schools Providing for Segregation, March 23rd, 1863 / Transcription

• Order to provide for a segregated school on the south side of Chicago, where the largest grouping of African-Americans lived. The original order for segregation of schools occurred in February of that year.

• Citation: Bailey, Robert E. and Elaine Shemoney Evans. Early Chicago, 1833-1871 A Selection of City Council Proceedings Files. Springfield: Illinois State Archives, 1999. Document 42. Used by permission of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Accessed on 11/19/2016. https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/teaching_packages/early_chicago/doc42.html

Education

Order of the Committee on Schools Providing for Segregation, March 23rd, 1863 / Transcription

• See Children and Family section

Religion and Morality

Whiskey Complaint, Christian County, 1865 / Transcription

• "To obtain a license to do business, tavern owners had to post a bond and agree to abide by the laws of the state. If proprietors allowed disorderly conduct or sold alcoholic beverages to servants or minors they could be fined or lose their licenses... Reverend James A. Gunn was deeply offended by the presence of this tavern in his town,  Blueville... This complaint came on the heels of widespread agitation for prohibition during the 1850's."

• Citation: Turnbaugh, Dr. Roy C. Jr. and Robert E. Bailey. Windows to the Past: A Selection of Illinois County Records from 1818 to 1880. Springfield: Illinois State Archives, 1985. Document 23. Used by permission of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

Women and Gender

An Act to protect Married Women in their separate property, 1861

• This act allowed women to own property after marriage. Before this act, the property of women was transferred to their husbands upon marriage. It was approved by the Illinois legislature on February 21st, 1861.

• Citation: Public Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twenty-Second General Assembly, Convened January 7, 1861. Springfield, IL: Bailhache & Baker, Printers, 1861. 143.