Often overlooked in the history of women’s suffrage because her work was accomplished prior to the national effort, Elizabeth Knox Booth of Glencoe IL was instrumental in securing Illinois women the right to vote in 1913, seven years before the national vote.During the time she was an active suffragist, Booth lived in what is today called the Booth Cottage, currently located in Glencoe’s Ravine Bluffs Park, designed by family friend and Booth business partner, Frank Lloyd Wright, located in the Wright-designed Ravine Bluffs Subdivision. In 1912 that Elizabeth Booth organized the Glencoe Equal Suffrage Association, the became legislative chair for the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA) in Chicago.When the suffrage bill was brought to the House, Booth sat in the gallery and sent messages fluttering down over the railing to floor captains who made sure pro-representatives were in place to vote aye. The bill passed with 77 votes.