It took Lorna E. Propes three years of teaching high school history and government to realize she wasn’t cut out for the job. But she wasn’t planning on leaving the classroom just yet. Propes took night classes at Loyola University Chicago School of Law while working full time as a guidance counselor at Evanston Township High School. There weren’t many female attorneys in the early 1970s, but Propes had always had a long-term plan to become a lawyer. “I, like many others, began to see …