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Jacob Grier
Jacob Grier

@Jake · Mar 29, 2022

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A brief post on drinking history: the story of how women won the right to tend bar in Chicago, fighting sex-based discrimination that lasted until 1970.

Fifty Years Ago in Chicago, It Was Illegal for Women to Bartend

Fifty Years Ago in Chicago, It Was Illegal for Women to Bartend

Historical marker outside She-nannigans,16 W. Division St in Chicago. In 1951, the City of Chicago enacted what came to be called the 'ba...

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