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2024

Developing relationships and collaborations with women's groups (AAUW), celebrating Women (ERA public program held at Lorenzo Bull Historic House), each Women's Equality Day with a public program at the Adams County Historical Society, hosting meetings of civic importance with City of Quincy officials (Mayor and Deputy Mayor), and collaborating with a philanthropic group focused on improving Safe and Livable Housing.

Of primary importance is our member's success at networking with City Council (in person as a meeting observer, emails to our respective Alderman to request support for Library funding, where we hold most meetings, and with Aldermen who attend and speak at meetings (traffic safety roundabout).

We have hosted the Adams County Health Department Director of Nursing, and followed up by inviting the Quincy Transportation Director, lobbying him to consider bus routes that had made voters from public housing have hour rides to the polls, and current routes requiring Mothers with strollers and small children in tow to cross a high traffic 4 lane street from the bus stop to the Health Department Immunization clinic.

We have manned Voter Registration Booths for Quincy High School, John Wood Community College, Quincy University, and for participants at our Salvation Army Kroc Center.

One of our members volunteers weekly at Quincy Police Department, producing direct access to our Chief for information about our city policy regarding illegal immigrant vulnerability. We have Election workers, have had an observer, and have been selected to draw lots for position on a County/City/School/Park Board ballot.

2025

A board member recently set up a new Facebook account for our local group (see the footer at the end of each page of this site). After the National LWV’s new website was launched , the Adams County Chapter created its own chapter website!

Several of our members worked for roughly a year as part of a group named QRILE. They gathered signatures for a petition to put a nonbinding referendum on the April 1st ballot in an effort to force our City Council to pass an ordinance requiring rental housing inspections. Our President wrote letters to both the Quincy Herald Whig and Muddy River News supporting the referendum. On April 1st, the voters passed the referendum nearly two to one.

On March 11th, we held a Mayoral forum for the two candidates, Mayor Mike Troup, Republican, and the challenger, Dr. Linda Moore, Independent. On April 1st, Dr. Moore won the election and will be Quincy’s first female mayor in 200 years.