Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Chicago Network

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 23:43, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Chicago Network[edit]

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Corporate networking organization which evidently fails WP:NORG. Very short article provides almost no context at all. Could not find any sources of information online, partly due to many organizations with similar names and purposes also operating in the same area, such as ACG Chicago Women's Network, IWIRC Chicago Network, Ellevate Chicago's Network for Women, Chicago Booth Women's Network, the Chicago Network for Justice and Peace, and the Chicago Republican Women's Network. Article has no sources at all despite being more than a decade old. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and Business. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:31, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NONPROFIT/WP:CLUB, their activities do not appear to be national or international in scale, and I also have not located significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that are independent of the organization (or outside the organization's local area). Outstanding in Their Field: How Women Corporate Directors Succeed (2009) has a paragraph at p. 19, describing the organization as an advocacy group and noting their history of conducting surveys since 1998. Crain's Chicago Business in 2018 quotes the CEO but the focus is another organization; a 2020 Q&A interview with the CEO is not independent. There is a 2010 obit in The Chicago Tribune with a brief mention that they were "one of the founders of The Chicago Network, a still-prominent organization of professional women started in 1979 as a group of "movers and shakers with the sole purpose of doing some collective moving and shaking," according to its Web site." There are quotes from the president and CEO in a 2020 local news piece (which describes the org as a "professional organization that works to empower women to lead and help create gender equity in organizations") and a mention of data from one of their reports in a 2014 Chicago Tribune article on another subject. In 2022, CBS2 reports on the participation and attendance of its own employees at a Chicago Network event. Beccaynr (talk) 01:28, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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