Good Afternoon,

I hope everyone had an exciting and healthy week. I recently completed my exhibit on the WILPF, so please check it out.

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 As for today, I have been going through the manuscript collections trying to discover the next piece I would like to work on. I have decided on Carol Ronen and for some general background information, she served as an Illinois State Representative in the 17th District from 1993-2000, prior to which she served as Executive Director of the Chicago Commission on Women. Carol was then appointed to the Illinois State Senate for District 7 in 2000 after the resignation of her predecessor, Arthur Berman, and was subsequently elected without an opponent. In 2006, she won reelection by defeating Republican Frank Thomas. In 2007, she announced that she would be resigning as Senator and officially stepped down on February 10, 2008. I was also reading online about her resignation and I came across something that discussed a scandal between her and Governor Blagojevich. I have yet to delve into this topic so I do not have much to share as of right now. Today, I was able to pull up some photos from the archives so I will display these below.

These are just some photos that I was able to scan but there is still a lot of work to do on this project. Please stay tuned until next week. Thank you for reading.

Cheers!

Sebastian