The Women’s March on Chicago is grateful to all the 250,000+ women and allies of women who came together on January 21, 2017, each standing up for issues they hold dear.
A map of the 120+ Meet-up Spots that were registered can be found here.
More than 275 groups registered to tell us they’d be marching! Many more showed up!
Supporting Groups
Supporting Groups provided significant planning support, resources, time, training, and/or speakers as well as Chicago marchers. Groups that had speakers or performers at the WMC Rally are shown in italics. The full speakers list can be found on the speakers page.
Access Living
Aids Foundation of Chicago
American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704
Black Lives Matter Chicago
Chicago Foundation for Women
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
Chicago Women Take Action
City of Chicago
Common Cause
DC Women’s March
Hadiya’s Promise: Hadiya Pendleton Foundation
Hamilton; Broadway in Chicago
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
Illinois Education Association
Kids off the Block
League of Women Voters of Illinois
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Mothers Against Senseless Killings
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
National Coalition of American Nuns
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Rainbow PUSH Coalition
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Northwestern University, Alice Millar Chapel
Organized Communities Against Deportations
Planned Parenthood Of Illinois
Pride Action Tank
RISE Movement
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Sierra Club
So Chi Voices
Temple Sholom of Chicago
TransLife Center
Windy City Media Group / Windy City Times
Women & Children First bookstore
Women Employed
Youth For Black Lives
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Participating Groups
Participating Groups registered and brought marchers to Chicago on January 21, 2017.
Action Corps Chicago
Action for a Better Tomorrow Chicago (formerly Pantsuit Nation Chicago)
Action for a Better Tomorrow - McHenry County
Action for a Better Tomorrow-Illinios-NW Suburbs
Action for a Better Tomorrow, South Suburban Chapter
Activists of Lakes Region of Lake County, Illinois
Affinity Community Services
American Association of University Women - Illinois (AAUW-IL)
American Association of University Women
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois
American Income
American Medical Women’s Association
Amnesty International - Chicago
ARTEMIS Singers
Association of Latino/as Motivating Action (ALMA)
Berrien Co. Michigan Democrats
Beverly broads
BAGS (Big Ass Brains)
Blono Pink Ladies
Bodhi Spiritual Center
BodyParts Fitness Senior Foundation (BSF)
Booxchix Book Group
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Brown Bag Progressives
Buddhist Peace Fellowship/Chicago
Cary Train Station meet-up
Cathedral Counseling Therapists in Action
Centro Romero Dare to Dream Youth Program
Champaign-Urbana Diversity United
Chesterton
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)
Chicago City Soccer Club
Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network
Chicago Movement for the 99%
Chicago NOW
Chicago Progressive Patriots
Chicago Survivors
Chicago Area Women’s History Council
Chicagoland Rainbow Families
Choices, Counseling and Coaching
Church of the Three Crosses
Christ Lutheran Church, Chicago
Community Church of Wilmette
Congregation BJBE
Congregation Hakafa
Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC)
CORE - Center of Relational Empowerment, PC
Curves Are Not a Caveat
DC14 Womens Committee on Organizing
Defending the Early Years
Dekalb Women stand with the Women’s March on Chicago
Democratic Party of Oak Park
Democratic Women of DuPage County
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) - Chicago
Doctors Council SEIU
Dollop Coffee Company Meet-up
DuPage County Progressives
EMILY’s List
Energized Evanston Sisters
Evanston/Skokie Episcopalians
Everyday Medicine Woman
Fabulous Females Break Out
Far North & Northwest Suburbs marchers
Feminist Collective at NEIU
First Congregational Church Evanston
First Congregational Church of Crystal Lake
49th Ward Democratic Party
Fempowerment
Four Women Who Care
Frack Free IL / Chicagoland Oil By Rail
Gensler
Get Shit Done - Evanston
Girlfriend Group
Glenview Girls
Go Green Wilmette
Agustin GOMEZ Family
Healing Earth Resources (H.E.R.)
Healthcare United Against Trump
Highland Park Meet Up
Hinsdale Progressive Group
Holy Trinity High School Sisterhood of Self-Empowerment Club
Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Women’s Institute for Leadership (IWIL)
Indivisible Group - Chicago
Itasca - Starbucks meet-up
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC)
Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs (JAC)
Jones College Prep High School - Med Club
Jones College Prep Women’s Empowerment Club
Joplin, Missouri Marchers
Just Like Me: Connecting Multiracial Families
Knit 1
Labbies for Liberation (UofC Lab Schools)
Lab Maroons
Lambda Legal
Landon Bone Baker Architects
League of Women Voters of Glen Ellyn
League of Women Voters Naperville
Le Cantanti di Chicago
Libertyville Ladies
Life Span
Lighthouse Church of Chicago
Lincoln Square Mamas
Lombard Mennonite Church
Love Trumps Hate
Loyola University Chicago Women’s Studies and Gender Studies
McHenry County Democratic Women’s Club
McHenry County Progressives
Maine West High School Amnesty International
Meet up to March West Loop
Mishkan Chicago
Mimi’s Organic Exchange (MOE)
Moms Building Bridges
Moms Clean Air Force - Illinois
Moms Demand Action
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
Muslim Community Center of Chicago
Muslim Women’s Alliance
Naper Gals
Naperville women
Nasty Woman Newsletter
National Association of Social Workers-Illinois Chapter
National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore
National Council of Jewish Women South Cook Section
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Near North Montessori
No Limits for Women
Northside College Prep High School students
Northside Democracy for America (NDFA)
North Park University
North Shore Country Day School Students Faculty and Alums
Northwest Indiana marchers
NU Grad Feminists
NU Program of African Studies Women’s Group
Oak Park meet up of marchers
Off the Sidelines Chicago
Older Women’s League (OWL) - Illinois
Our Babies Matter, Inc.
Outraged Women
PAMELA
Pantsuit Nation (PSN)
Pax Christi Seed Planters
Pax Christi USA, Illinois
Pantsuit Nation LF/LB
Peace and Justice Committee of Lake Street Church, Evanston
People for a Safer Society (PFSS)
Personal PAC
Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Northern Illinois Council
Polki w Akcji (Polish Women in Action)
Potters Oppose Trump (POT!)
Powerful Ordinary Women (POW)
Proud Kitties
Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility
Pullman Christian Reformed Church
Purpose Over Pain
Rabble Rousers
Rape Victim Advocates (RVA)
Reclaim Chicago
Refuse Fascism
RocketMamas Chicagoland
Rockford activists
Running for Our Rights
Rush Heart Center for Women
Rush University
Ruthless Readers
Skokie marchers
Social Workers
St. Pauls United Church of Christ Women
Saint Paul & The Redeemer Women’s Group
San Jose Obrero Mission (SJOM)
Second Unitarian Church
Sharna’s group
Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom (SOSS)
Sisters in the Building Trades
Sisterhood of Jewish and Muslim Women
Smith Alumnae Club of Chicago
South Austin Neighborhood Association
Stand With Women
State of Black Chicago Congress
State Rep Ann Williams and constituents
State Rep Sara Feigenholtz and constituents
Students Run CHI / Chicago Heart Initiative
Suburban Unity Alliance
Teachers for Democracy
Tenth Dems (Tenth Congressional District Democrats)
The People’s Lobby
Third Unitarian Church
Trinity United Methodist Church, Wilmette
TLC - Trump Loves Caca-Cola
Two Friends
Unitarian Church of Evanston
Unitarian Church of Hinsdale
United Nations Association (UNA), Greater Chicago Chapter
Unity Temple Women’s Connection
University of Chicago Democrats
University of St Francis College Democrats
UUCUC marchers
Vegan Chicago
Veterans For Peace - Chicago Chapter
Voice4Equality
Voices of Reason
Warrior Women for Social Justice and the Environment
We’re Not Crazy
West Side Bike Yogis
Wheaton-Glen Ellyn AAUW
Whitmores
Will County NOW - National Organization for Women
Women From The Mather in Evanston
Women of Actors Equity Association (AEA)
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
Womens Opportunity Network
Women Tech Founders
Womens March RP
Women Tech Founders (WTF)
Wright College Speech Students
Yoga To Transform Trauma
YWCA Lake County
A map of Meet-up Spots that were registered can be found here.