Chapter History

Zeta Tau Zeta Chapter was chartered on June 20, 1966 as the Chicago Metropolitan Graduate Chapter. The chapter was formed as the result of 57 Sorors who wanted to unify the Chicagoland area. These Sorors were members of Beta Iota Zeta and Zeta Zeta Chapters. Today, Zeta Tau Zeta Chapter is one of the largest graduate chapters in the State of Illinois and the Great Lakes Region. Today our chapter has 92 active members.

Annually, Zeta Tau Zeta presents four or five scholarships during the sorority’s National observance of Finer Womanhood. Zeta Tau Zeta sponsors a Stork’s Nest program for pregnant teen mothers, and their partners. This program is done in conjunction with the March of Dimes, a National partner of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Other National initiatives we support are the American Cancer Society and the National Educational Foundation of our Sorority. Our chapter actively supports the Sorority’s latest National program Z-HOPE (Zetas Helping Other People Excel through Mind, Body and Spirit). We enthusiastically take the lessons of Z-HOPE to men, women and youth across the city and in the city’s youth penal system.

Throughout the years Zeta Tau Zeta has supported many community organizations, such as the Chicago Urban League’s annual, Feed the homeless programs, Ronald McDonald House, Family Rescue Domestic Violence Shelter and St. James AME Church’s feeding the hungry under Lower Wacker Drive program. We take our principles seriously and are constantly looking for organizations where we can bring the message of Finer Womanhood, Service, Scholarship and Sisterly Love.