Monthly Meetings

Save the Date, October 15, 2019

At our next monthly meeting the speaker will be Sara Phalen, the Executive Director Of Women On The Border.

Sara has been an organizer and nonprofit administrator working with community groups and cultural institutions to study, educate and raise awareness around issues of social justice in areas with large immigrant populations. Her work has focused on communities in the western suburbs of Chicago, with links to the United States-Mexico border.

In 2009 she co-founded People Made Visible, an arts and culture nonprofit that utilizes the arts as a catalyst for social change. In 2016 she was selected by Shaw Media for a Best Under 40 Award. In association with People Made Visible and the Museum for the City of West Chicago Sara developed an exhibit funded by the History Channel on the history of Mexican labor migration in agriculture and railroad construction in Illinois leading to the creation of a lasting Mexican-American community in West Chicago.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 for our October meeting.

Elgin Township Building | Lower Level
729 S. McLean Blvd, Elgin, IL 60123

The location of the regular monthly meeting of Elgin Township Democrats will change starting with the May 21, 2019 meeting.

The new location will be in the Elgin Township Building located at 729 S. McLean Blvd., Elgin, IL 60123.

Please park behind the building and use the East entrance to enter the building. The meetings will be held in the basement. An elevator is available.

At our Tuesday, February 19, 2019 meeting: Dr. John Perryman, a general pediatrician and co-president of Physicians for a National Health Program in northern Illinois, will speak about the push for single payer health care.

In addition, as noted in a previous email sent to precinct committeepersons, we will discuss and vote on a motion, made at the January meeting, to amend the bylaws of Elgin Township Democrats. The motion, in relevant part, reads as follows, “To amend the Elgin Township Democrats Bylaws to replace each reference to ‘Committeeman’ with ‘Committeeperson,’ ‘Committeemen’ with ‘Committeepersons’ and ‘Chairman’ with ‘Chair,’ and to change the expression ‘one man-one vote’ to ‘one person-one vote’.”

All Democratic candidates are welcome to speak. We look forward to seeing you!

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
6:30 p.m. Potluck
7:30 p.m. Meeting begins.

Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren
783 W. Highland Avenue
Elgin, IL 60123

The health and future of the Fox River is expected to soon become a focus of renewed public interest and debate. Driving this debate will be a new study by the US Army Corps of Engineers detailing the environmental benefits and other likely consequences of retaining, removing or modifying Fox’s dams. There are 15 such dams from the Chain of Lakes to the Illinois River.

What is driving the interest of the Army Corp and what costs and benefits can be expected by challenging the status quo? Art Malm’s presentation will provide Elgin Township Democrats with a first look at the elements of this debate that will literally shape the future of Our Fox River.

ETD had a great turnout in a holiday week meeting. We were able to celebrate the victories and near victories of our candidates.

Those that were able to make it were able to share in celebratory cake, have a chance to talk of their experience as a candidate, and listen to our guess speaker James Keough Bishop Jr. who is an Ambassador that spent time in Niger, Liberia, and Somalia. Ambassador Bishop spoke to the diplomacy in the Trump era.

Again I would like to congratulate all of our candidates and our precinct people and all who helped make this a great turn out election. Keep it up.

The Guest Speaker at our August 21, 2018 meeting will be author and storyteller, Jim May.

Jim was born in Spring Grove, Illinois where his ancestors first settled in the 1840’s. Raised in this small German-Catholic farming community, his stories resonate with the rural voices of the Illinois prairie. His relatives spent time “visiting” and telling stories as an integral part of daily life–a means of weaving the social fabric of the community.

As an Emmy award-winning storyteller and author, Jim seeks to reestablish live storytelling as an art form, ideal not only for entertainment and education, but also for the grounding and healing that is needed in complex, modern times.

You can learn more about Jim at jimmaystoryteller.com.