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WINDY CITY TIMES
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Forum to Showcase Mayoral Candidates to Women
2018-12-23
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Dec. 21, 2018 — ( Chicago, IL ) — To ensure that Chicago women have the opportunity to learn where mayoral candidates stand on the issues they consider most essential, the more than 50 organizational members of the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance will hold a Mayoral Candidates' Forum on Saturday, February 2 nd , from 1 to 4pm at the Chicago Temple, 77 West Washington, Chicago, IL.
The Feb. 2 Forum — the third forum that the Alliance has sponsored — will be preceded by the online posting of candidates' responses to a questionnaire based on the CWTA Alliance Agenda created in 2014 ( see attached ) and will be followed by the posting of results of a straw poll taken online at the Forum's conclusion.
Based on past experiences, organizers expect the Mayoral Forum to be attended by nearly 700 people and seen on video by 10,000 or more. The event is free of charge but tickets are required. Tickets will be available in early January 2019.
AAUW IL — Action Illinois — Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy — Affinity Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Theta Omega Chapter — Amalgamated Transit Workers — Arab American Family Services — Cause the Effect — Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation — Chicago Foundation for Women — Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network — Chicago National Organization for Women PAC — Chicago Teens Take Action — Chicago United for Equity — Chicago Women in Green — Chicago Women Take Action — City Clerk Anna Valencia — Community Renewal Society — Democratic Party of Oak Park — Enlace Chicago
— Fierce Over 40 — Fight For $15 Chicago — Generation All — Girl Talk — Girlfriends Group — Gorgeous Within — Hustle Mommies — Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence — Illinois Democratic Women — Illinois Psychological Association, Women's Section — Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership — Indivisible Illinois — Mujeres Latinas en AcciÃ"n — National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore — Planned Parenthood of Illinois — Power Pumps — Pride Action Tank — RAINBOW-PUSH — Raise Your Hand — SAFE Coalition for Human Rights — SEIU Healthcare — Voices and Faces Project — Windy City Times — Women and Children First Bookstore — Women Employed — Women's Business Development Center — Women's March Chicago — Women's National Democratic Club — YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
—From a press release
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