Geraldine McCollough was a renowned sculptor and painter. Hospitals around the world now use this method to store blood. Fantus lived in Oak Park until his death in 1940.
Bernard Fantus, a Hungarian American physician, established the first blood bank at Cook County Hospital in 1937. Before the blood bank, emergency blood transfusions were limited because blood could not be stored and transfusions required the immediate availability of the donor. She was instrumental in the passing of the "Illinois Suffrage Act," which gave women partial suffrage by allowing them to vote in local and national elections in 1913. She strongly believed in voting equality and served as president of two well-known suffrage organizations, the Chicago Political Equality League and Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Grace Wilbur Trout and her family moved to Oak Park in 1903. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association probably in Chicago, Illinois, July 18, 1914.
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