Virginia Brooks (January 11, 1886 – June 15, 1929) was an American suffragist and political reformer who worked in the Chicago region and throughout Indiana in the early 1900s.

[3] The first goal of the ASC was to raise enough money to send Wells to Washington, D.C. to participate in a suffrage march on behalf of the club.

Brooks moved to West Hammond, Illinois, with her mother after inheriting land valued at about $39,000 from her father.

[4][5] West Hammond was a village on the border of Illinois and Indiana (now part of Calumet City as of 1923), just south of Chicago.

She campaigned against the vice culture of West Hammond and attacked tavern owners, who ruled the village.

One of her first moves in political activism was the campaign she held against the transition of the status of West Hammond from a village to a city in 1911.

[7] Brooks believed that the village needed to be clean of vice and corruption before it should be upgraded to a new style of government.