Excerpt from Evanston RoundTable, October 3, 2021, by Les Jacobson:

"The National Votes for Women Trail marker is one of several hundred in the U.S. but only four in Illinois, said Lori Osborne, Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center.

The marker, which has already been installed at the south end of the park, reads in part: “National Votes for Women Trail. Road to the 19th Amendment. Votes for women. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, political activist and legal strategist for IL women’s suffrage gained in 1913. Park named in her honor.

McCulloch graduated from law school and passed the bar in 1886, according to Wikipedia, but after facing gender hiring discrimination elected to start her own law firm in 1892.

In 1917, she was appointed as a master in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court. She became known for her advocacy in working to eliminate or modify marriage and divorce laws that discriminated against women, and she worked to create uniformity of such laws in all states.

She was the legal adviser for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (which became the League of Women Voters in 1920 after passage of the 19th Amendment) and was its first vice president. She also served as the legal adviser for the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union."