1896-1900
1896-97 - Grace Bagley appointed as head of Lecture Section for All Souls Church/ Abraham Lincoln Center
1896 - Grace Bagley took over management of Pacific Ave. tenement (According to one source, but may have been a year or two earlier)
1897 - Grace Bagley helped dedicate the Northwestern University Settlement House Playground under Chicago & North Western train tracks
Grace Bagley served on the committee to create the playground with Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Nathan Crerar and other prominent people. Clarence Buckingham donated funds for the playground equipment.
1897 - CWC discussion about “Justice rather than charity,” led by Grace
1898 - CWC paper on Socialism, with response by Grace
ca. 1898 - Bagleys sold their Hinsdale summer house
1899 - Grace Bagley chaired CWC committee that is working to pass the Parental School Bill and the Dependent & Delinquent Children Bill
1899 - Juvenile Court established, Lucy Flower and Grace were instrumental
1899 - CWC sends a “full-fledged suffrage bill” to Springfield, no action taken by the leg.
1899 - Grace Bagley chair of the Program Committee, CWC Philanthropy Dept.
1899 - CWC establishes new committee to study tenement house problem
1899 - Grace Bagley helps organize CWC class on “The Needs of a Great City”
1899 - Grace Bagley served on a committee that met with the Mayor to try to convince him to adopt a dormitory system at Worthy School (so boys could live in separate quarters from the men).
1899 - Grace Bagley on a committee of the Charity Organization Society that created an exhibit that was displayed first at the NY Tenement Exhibit, then at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then at the Paris Exposition. Jane Addams chaired the committee, other members including architects Dwight Perkins and Alan Pond, Mrs. Wade Rogers, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Lucy Flower and Charles Hutchinson
1899 - Union labor protests begin against ‘open shop’ at several Chicago marble works, including Bagley’s
Almeda Hodges and Stephen A. Foster were married at Byrd’s Nest Chapel, Elmhurst, IL
1900 - Meeting about Juvenile Justice held at Handel Hall with CWC and League of Cook County Clubs. The speakers were Judge Tuthill, Mrs. A.P. Stevens, Julia Lathrop, and Grace Bagley. The meeting resulted in an agreement that the League would sustain a Probation officer for the Juvenile Court and volunteer officers to support them. (CWC Probation Committee of Philanthropy Department was in constant attendance at Juvenile Court.)
1900 - Grace, Jane Addams, and Mrs. Wade Rogers (Emma Rogers) gave a presentation to the CWC on Tenement Houses. Mrs. Rogers showed stereopticon slides of tenement houses in Chicago, NY and Philadelphia
1900 - FLW designs summer home for Almeda and Stephen Foster in West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago