The young women in Chicago started a nonprofit to introduce chess to more girls. So far they’ve reached 550 students with free lessons, a podcast and more.

The number of teams has more than doubled in the league’s second year. “This isn’t a boys sport. Girls can play too,” one coach said.

Hamilton was a doctor, a scientist and Harvard’s first female professor. She was known for her “shoe leather” epidemiology — wearing out the soles of her shoes from all the trips she made to factories, hospitals and even saloons to carry out her research. Her investigations of toxins in factories led to some of the first workplace safety laws in the country, saving countless American lives.

Trump's overt hypermasculinity was a defining feature of his candidacy in 2016. His opponents know it, too, and they're trying to turn this key piece of his political success into a vulnerability.

Green, a former slave who moved to Chicago to work as a caretaker for a prominent white family, was hired to portray a living version of the character at the 1893 World’s Fair, according to her obituaries. She was later hired to play the role for the pancake company until her death.

Anuoluwapo “Anu” Solola wants to show other young women that they, too, belong in the sciences.

At 1,191 feet, Vista Tower is the world's tallest skyscraper designed by a woman. But for architect Jeanne Gang, that's not the most important point of pride. “When I’m designing a building, I don’t think ‘I’m a woman designing this building,’” she said.

Nationwide, black mothers die at triple the rate of white mothers. Now there's a growing push to get Medicaid coverage for birth doulas as a possible way to help reduce racial disparities in maternal deaths.

Lightfoot’s election is the latest in a record number of black women elected mayor in the nation’s 100 largest cities. Lightfoot will become the eighth such woman to lead one of those cities, Chicago being the largest, when she takes office in May. The movement has been swift. Just five years ago, there was only one black woman leading any of the nation’s top 100 cities.

Players were given “beauty kits” and a guide on how to use them. This charm school guide also had instructions on etiquette, which had this to say about how to interact with fans: There is an old saying that "the customer is always right." This, in a sense, holds true of the baseball fan, who exercises the right to talk to you without knowing you, to shout at you from the stands and to voice his opinion, good or bad, of the play on the field. After all, he is your customer and he feels that you, as a player, and the team, belong to him.