2024-2025 Events
(Guests are always welcome!)
Until our 2025-2026 Program Year resumes in August, please check out the online Webinars offered by aauw.org by clicking on the National Webinars tab.
Past Events
Saturday, June 1, 2024
100th Anniversary Celebration!
Lunch and Reminiscing
Location: Patton Block Grill & Brew Pub, 88 Public Square, Monmouth
Time: 12:00 pm
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Book Group: The Women by Kristin Hannah
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:30 am
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
National Voter Registration Day
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The Jane Addams Branch invites you to “Truth, Trust, and Turnout: Navigating Elections, Civic Engagement, and Disinformation.”
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Book Group: Glitter and Glue: a Memoir by Kelly Corrigan
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Monday, September 30, 2024
Meet & Greet with current & prospective members
Appetizers, dessert, and drinks were served. Bringing degreed friends and college students was encouraged. Program plans for the year were discussed. All new members and previous members who have lapsed more than two years could join at this event and save $36 off their dues. Student memberships: Both undergraduates and students pursuing a graduate degree are eligible to join for $18.81.
Location: Warren County Public Library Board Room, 62 Public Square, Monmouth
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Book Group: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles
Location: Your Zoom Room (link emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10:30 am
Online Event: Meet the AAUW Fellows and Grantees
Hosts: Chicago AAUW Branch and Jane Addams AAUW Branch
Two recent recipients of the AAUW fellowships and grants speak to us about their research, studies, and projects.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Book Group: Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire by Stacy Cordery
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Holiday Brunch
Location: Weeks House, 1002 E. Broadway, Monmouth
Time: 10 – 11:30 am
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6-7:00 pm (CST)
Zoom meeting “AAUW Priorities in Light of the Election Results” featuring Meghan Kissell, AAUW Senior Director of Policy and Member Advocacy. The talk will focus on social justice priority issues and other priorities that go with or hinge on social justice.
Monday, December 23, 2024
National Screening of the movie “Ratified”
170 million women and girls (and our LGBTQ+ community) are the unprotected sex in America and our Constitution is the only major constitution that does not explicitly protect gender equality.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Our branch’s Centennial Celebration continues as we offer this program to the community in conjunction with the Warren County Library.
Presenter: Carey Jones and her leader dog, Winston
Carey will share her story of personal empowerment through the LeaderDog.org program.
Location: Warren Co. Public Library, 62 Public Square, Monmouth
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Book Group: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Book Group: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The AAUW-IL Jane Addams Branch invites you to an online program on Wednesday, February 26 at 7 pm, when our state public policy co-chairs, Karen Kortsch and Ken Olson, will lead a discussion. Are you feeling overwhelmed or angry? Join us and we will review:
1. What is happening in the White House and what can we do?
2. What is happening in Illinois and how can we prepare for the spring municipal elections?
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
The Supremes: Women of Scotus
The AAUW Elmhurst Branch is partnering with the Elmhurst Public Library to celebrate National Women’s History Month. The program is entitled “The Supremes: Women of SCOTUS.”
Tauva Forst, Professor of Justice at the College of DuPage, and Richard J. Forst, attorney, will discuss the only six women who have been appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Participation is available in person or online, but registration is requested.
Thursday, March 20, 2025, Noon – 1:00 CDT
Book Group: Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Book Group: In Thought, Word, and Seed: Reckonings from a Midwest Farm by Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am
Friday/Saturday, April 25-26, 2025
AAUW-IL State Convention
Northfield Inn, Suites & Conference Center
3280 Northfield Drive, Springfield, IL
- It’s time to celebrate 100 years of conventions and plan how we’ll navigate the next 100 years.
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Saturday, May 3, 2025
End of the program year Online & Zoom MeetingIN PERSON FOLKS: WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Setup at 8:30 am1. RSVP TO 3109088396 OR joyfl66.weber@gmail.com by Friday2. Please bring something for Brunch this Sat. between 8:30 and 9 am. We will eat from 9-930 am. Then the Zoom call begins: 9:30-1030 am.1. Sharon Gilbert – cutup fruit2. Carolyn – Breakfast casserole-NO meat or potatoes3. Bring your own drink4. If there’s a wheelchair, please call from the sidewalk near the back door of the Buchanan Center for the Arts. Someone will push you up the sidewalk and into the Board Room. -
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Book Group: Lovely One: a Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
The first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time: 10:00 am