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Real Women Wear Badges
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They are strong! They are invincible!
COVER PHOTO BY JEN SHANAHAN COVER DESIGN BY GINA CROTCHFELT
Following the Great Fire of 1871, a crime wave ensued. Young boys were on the streets. Young women engaged in prostitution. The increase in female criminals precipitated a need for women on the job, and in 1881 the first “matron” came to work for the Chicago Police Department. In 1891, 35-year-old Mary Davenport became Chicago’s first African American matron.
By 1895, the Department employed 30 matrons working 12-hour shifts with no relief. In 1893, when an ·appointment made by the mayor of Chicago, for the widow of an officer, Mrs. Marie Ow- ens, became the first female Chicago Police Officer. And reportedly the first female officer in the U.S. She served for 30 years as a “patrolman” until her retirement on pension.
Hired in 1913, Alice Clements made more than 1,000 arrests doing undercover work for the Department, becoming Chicago’s “most famous policewoman.” And in 1947, the Women’s Bureau of the CPD was formed with 80 policewomen and 40 matrons.
Fast forward to 2022, when this issue of Chicago Lodge 7 Magazine celebrates that as much as one-third of the Department is now female officers. And in honor of National Women’s History month, this issue celebrates the real women who wear badges in Chicago.
Starting with the three women pictured here and on the cover, Lodge 7 can read about some of its outstanding and amazing women.
Every article in this issue is written either by women officers or about women officers. That in- cludes profiles of the women pictured here, Erin Jones (left) and Carolynn Crump (right), who are running for political office, and Monica Ortiz (center), the first female field rep for Lodge 7 in more than 20 years.
The highlights of this issue include:
• Tributes from women on the job, including Officer Haley Mirabelli writing about her part- ner, Ella French.
• The story of the Zolis family – mother Ziola and daughters Stefany and Trysha, who have followed her on the job.
• A look at the female officers member/cop/artist Peter Bucks has featured in portraits the past six years, including the one officer who finally consented to have her portrait done: his wife, Detective Wendy Weller.
• A visit with Maria Marmolejo, the wife of fallen officer Eduardo Marmolejo, who has taken over as chair of the Gold Star Families.
• And stories about members who have distinguished themselves in peer support, the mili- tary, fundraising and one who was honored as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade queen.
Please join all Lodge 7 members in praising the women of the Department for the work they do every day. And enjoy reading!
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