University of Illinois Greek Houses - Sororities

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What's even more interesting is that the women's fraternity system at Illinois was fairly late to the game as far as midwestern state institutions go - 1895 (If you look in Baird's it has Kappa Alpha Theta listed as 1875. The charter from the Theta chapter at Illinois Wesleyan was transferred to the chapter at U of I. That happened just as the Pi Phis were waiting on a Grand Council officer to get there from Galesburg.) Truly it was not until the mid 1890s that the women's system began there. It started at Indiana University in 1870, Kansas in 1873, Minnesota in 1880, and Missouri in 1875.