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As of 2012-09-27. Working initially from this list.

  1. Merriel Abbott, choreographer and dance educator
  2. Nabia Abbott, first female member of the faculty at the Oriental Institute
  3. Mary Reynolds Aldis, avant-garde theater producer
  4. Rose Alschuler, child welfare activist and founder of nursery schools throughout Chicagoland
  5. Mary Agnes Amberg, director of the Madonna Center settlement 1913-1962
  6. Sadie American, influential reformer and activist
  7. Tennessee Anderson, sculptor, music educator, and wife of Sherwood Anderson
  8. Violette Anderson, first African-American woman admitted to practice in the US District Court, Eastern Division
  9. Joan Arai, Uptown education activist
  10. Ruth Austin, head of the Gads Hill Center settlement house
  1. Lizzie Barbe
  2. Macena Barton
  3. Therese Benedek
  4. Enella Benedict
  5. Bessie Bennett
  6. Cornelia De Bey
  7. Jessie Binford
  8. Kath Blackshear
  9. Anita Blain
  10. Dorothea Blender
  11. Katharine Blunt
  12. Maudelle Bousfield
  13. Louise Bowen
  14. Rebecca Brenner
  15. Alice Brimson, president of the Baptist Missionary Training School
  16. Fritzi Brod
  17. Kate Buckingham
  18. Carrie E. Bullock
  19. Clara Louise Burnham
  20. Fanny Amanda Butcher
  1. Margery Carlson
  2. Helen Carpenter
  3. Rue Carpenter
  4. Rosa Cassettari
  5. Mary Catherwood
  6. Augusta Chapin
  7. Flora Cheney
  8. Stefania Chmielinska
  9. Elisabeth Christman
  10. Helen Cirese
  11. Marion Weber Claire
  12. Herma Clark
  13. Kate Cleary
  14. Annie Coburn
  15. Mary Coffey
  16. Flora Cooke
  17. Lydia Coonley-Ward
  18. Caroline Corbin
  19. Bernice Cory
  20. Stella Counselbaum
  21. Martha Crane
  22. Florence Criley
  23. Rumah Crouse
  24. Margery Currey
  1. Margaret Dagenais
  2. Petra Dahl
  3. Donna Trina Davila
  4. Frances Dickinson
  5. Annetta Dieckmann
  6. Kate Newell Doggett
  7. Emma Dryer
  8. M. Theresa Dudzik
  9. Ethel Sturges Dummer
  1. Thyra Edwards
  2. Fannie Emanuel
  3. Rev. Mary Evans
  4. Mary Everhart
  1. Matilda Fenberg
  2. Sisters Fischer
  3. Bertha Floistad
  4. Lucy Flower
  5. Yokelund Foin
  6. Edna Foley
  7. Frances Foy
  8. Eleanor Freer
  9. Harriet Fulmer
  1. Irene Gaines
  2. Isabella Garnett
  3. Eliza Garrett
  4. Walburga Gehring
  5. Helen Geraghty
  6. Alice Gerstenberg, influential playwright and novelist
  7. Ursula Gestefeld
  8. Frances Glessner
  9. Marion Gridley
  10. Edith Grimm
  11. Rose Marie Gyles
  1. Sara Hallowell
  2. Elizabeth Harbert
  3. Ruth Hetzel Harshaw
  4. Caroline Hedger
  5. Helen Hefferan
  6. Ellen Henrotin
  7. Genevieve Herrick
  8. Mary Herrick
  9. Frances Herskovits
  10. Lillian Herstein
  11. Bessie Hillman
  12. Cecilia Himebaugh
  13. Mary Wood Hinman
  14. Lizzie Holmes
  15. Bertha Van Hoosen
  16. Chauncina White Horse
  17. Mary Ann Hubbard
  18. Alta Hulett, first woman admitted to the Illinois bar, and drafter of the law opening the professions to women
  19. Caroline Huling
  20. Josefa Humpal-Zeman
  21. Olga Huncke
  22. Mary Hurley
  1. Anna Ickes
  2. Miyoko Ito
  3. Carrie Jabobs-Bond
  4. Bertha Jaques
  5. Helen Jarrell
  6. Paraskeve Voula Javaras
  7. Clara Judson
  8. Myrna Kassel
  9. Irene Kawin
  10. May Kerr
  11. Helen Koch
  12. Esther Kohn
  13. Alvina Krause
  14. Hazel Kyrk
  1. Martha Lamb
  2. Vida Latham
  3. Stefania Laudyn
  4. Clara Laughlin
  5. Djane Lavoie-Herz
  6. Rose Hum Lee
  7. Rosa Lemberg
  8. Mollie Levitas
  9. Beatrice Levy
  10. Frances Lillie
  11. Margaret Lin
  12. Anna Livshis
  13. Lola Maverick Lloyd
  14. Minnie Low
  15. Laura Lunde
  16. Evelyn Lundeen
  17. Bertha Lyons
  1. Annie MacLean
  2. Leona Malek
  3. Elizabeth Maloney
  4. Ellen Martin
  5. Lena McCauley
  6. Nettie McCormick
  7. Annette McCrea
  8. Mary McDowell
  9. M. McGrath
  10. Caroline McIlvaine
  11. Ada S. McKinley, founder of the South Side Settlement House, later known as Ada S. McKinley Community Services
  12. M. Helena McMillan
  13. Edna McRae
  14. Mary McWhinnie
  15. Marie Mergler
  16. Iris Merrill
  17. Lucy Meyer
  18. Emily Miller
  19. Rosamond Mirabella
  20. Mary Monholland
  21. Mary Montay
  22. Harriet Moody
  23. Harriet Moroe
  24. Chiyo Murakami
  25. Mother E. Murphy
  26. Othelia Myhrman
  1. Edith de Nancrede
  2. Emily Napieralski
  3. Esther Natkin
  4. Ida Gray Nelson
  5. Julia Newberry
  6. Mollie Newbury
  7. Margaret Nice
  8. Anna Nicholes
  1. Anne Oberndorfer
  2. Mary Agatha O'Brien
  3. Jessie Lloyd O'Connor
  4. M. Ellen O'Hanlon
  5. Lottie O'Neill
  6. Archange Ouilmette
  7. Genie Owens
  8. Mansie O'Young
  1. Alice Peurala, first woman to lead a steelworkers' local
  2. Lucy Palermo
  3. Pauline Palmer
  4. Laura Van Pappelendam
  5. Bertha Parker
  6. Mary Marjorie Pebworth
  7. Laura Pelham
  8. Anna J. Peterson
  9. Stella Petrakis
  10. Natalie Picchiotti
  11. Bessie Pierce
  12. Ida Platt
  13. Hilda Polacheck
  14. Pessie Pomerantz
  15. Georgia Pooley
  16. Eliza Porter
  17. Annabel Prescott
  18. Tobey Prinz
  19. Lidia Pucinska
  20. Harriet Pullman
  21. Jennie Purvin
  22. Alice Putnam, educator and founder of the Chicago Froebel Association
  1. Margaret Redfield
  2. Nannie Reis
  3. Harriet Rice
  4. Adena Rich, followed Jane Addams as head resident of Hull House and director of the Immigrants' Protective League
  5. Cora Richmond
  6. Angelina Rico
  7. Lydia Roberts
  8. Ina Robertson
  9. Increase Robinson
  10. Alice Roullier, gallery owner and cofounder of the Arts Club of Chicago
  11. Anne Rudolph
  1. Bozena Salava
  2. Theofila Samolinska
  3. Esther Saperstein
  4. Maria Saucedo
  5. Minna Schmidt
  6. Dolores Schorsch
  7. Flora Seymour
  8. Sonia Sharnova
  9. Katharine Sharp
  10. Katherine Sharp
  11. Annie Shaw
  12. Madeleine Sikes
  13. May Wood Simons
  14. Amy Skenandore
  15. Eleanor Slagle
  16. Julia Holmes Smith
  17. Lucy Madden Smith
  18. Ethel Grace Spears
  19. Bertha Kaplan Spector
  20. Ingeborg Sponland
  21. Norma Stahle
  22. Elisa Stigler
  23. Frances Strain
  24. Ebba Sundstrom
  25. Imayo Suzuki
  26. Ada Sweet, first female US pension agent
  1. Marion Talbot, first Dean of Women in the US and co-founder of the American Association of University Women
  2. Lea Taylor, head resident at the Chicago Commons settlement 1922-1954
  3. Julia Thecla
  4. Narcissa Thorne, noted miniaturist
  5. Mabel Landrum Torrey
  6. Charlotte Towle
  7. Grace Wilbur Trout
  8. Corinne True
  9. B. Fain Tucker
  10. Beatrice Tucker
  11. Ruth Tunnicliff
  12. Alice Kellogg Tyler, leading 19th-century Chicago woman artist
  1. Mabel Vickery
  2. Harriet Vittum
  3. Ellen Van Volkenburg
  4. Bessie Vonnoh
  5. Vlasta Vraz
  6. Bernice Van der Vries
  1. Catharine Waite, suffragist, publisher and founder of the Hyde Park Seminary
  2. Lucy Waite, leading early Chicago woman surgeon, medical superintendent of Mary Thompson Hospital
  3. Judith Waller, first general manager of WGU
  4. Florence Walrath, founder of the Cradle Society adoption agency
  5. Chi Che Wang, biochemist and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  6. Mary Waring, leader in the National Association of Colored Women
  7. Celia Warshawsky, advocate for the deaf
  8. Gladys Welge, musical prodigy and educator
  9. Clara Welles, silversmith and founder of the Kalo Shop
  10. Dora Wells, principal and education reformer
  11. Mary Wicker, painter and sculptor]]
  12. Frances L. Willard, itinerant founder of women's seminaries
  13. Florence Williams, anti-tuberculosis activist
  14. Mary J. Wilmarth, suffragist and activist, first president of the Women's City Club of Chicago
  15. Halena Wilson, longtime head of the women's auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  16. Mary Bolton Wirth, activist and public housing administrator
  17. Celia Woolley, founding member of the NAACP and founder of the Frederick Douglass Center
  18. Edith Wyatt, novelist, satirist and literary critic
  1. Rachelle Yarros, early professor of obstetrics at University of Illinois College of Medicine, leader in social hygiene and birth control movements

Notable American women educators lacking articles

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  1. Alice P. Barrows
  2. Mary Carroll Craig Bradford
  3. Marie Joseph Butler
  4. Mary Regis Casserly
  5. Sucheng Chan
  6. Elizabeth Avery Colton
  7. Lucretia Crocker
  8. Willystine Goodsell
  9. Helen Heffernan
  10. Mary Atkins Lynch
  11. Lucy Sprague Mitchell
  12. Caroline F. Putnam
  13. Polingaysi Qoyawayma
  14. Caroline Elizabeth Bushyhead Quarles
  15. Julia Richman
  16. Helen Mansfield Robinson
  17. Blandina Segale
  18. Hilda Worthington Smith
  19. Emily Eliza Ingham Staunton
  20. Lois Meek Stolz
  21. Marion Talbot
  22. Joyce Sachiko Tsunoda
  23. Martha Beulah Mann Yallup