North Shore (IL) Chapter, The Links, Incorporated

The members of The Links, Incorporated are influential decision makers and opinion leaders, celebrating more than 65 years as a women’s volunteer service organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. A premier international service organization with more than 14,000 members in 283 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, its legacy of friends providing service that changes lives, established by the original circle of nine friends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, is alive and well. The organization is the recipient of awards from the UN Association of New York and the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation for its premier programs.