Hi, it's Curious City editor Susie On.

March is Women's History Month, and we're revisiting a couple of stories about some trailblazing women.

Some remembered, many overlooked.

Where are all the tributes to women in Chicago?

Like the bronze and stone monuments of them.

Kids need to be able to look around boys and girls.

Look around and say, I can be that.

The city has an appalling underrepresentation of statues

recognizing historic female figures.

But there are people trying to change that.

But first up, we'll take a step back,

125 years back, to the beginning

of a system here in the U.S. that recognized the need to separate kids from adults in our prison

population. It may seem unthinkable now, but the U.S. legal system treated children the same

as adults until the late 19th century, when a group of

Cook County women demanded change and reconfigured the juvenile criminal justice system forever.

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slash donate. Several years back, reporter Quinn Myers took a look at one of Chicago's most influential exports,

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