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On This Day - June 15, 1921

June 15, 1921: Aviator Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman of Chicago becomes the first African-American woman to receive an international pilot’s license

On This Day - June 14, 1909

June 14, 1909: Folk singer and actor Burl Burl Ives is born in Hunt City in Jasper County

On This Day - June 13, 1925

June 13, 1925: Ada Kepley, the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, dies in Effingham

On This Day - June 12, 1972

June 12, 1972: Influential Chicago community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky dies

On This Day - June 11, 1913

June 11, 1913: The Illinois House votes to grant women the right to vote in presidential elections

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