Excerpt from Press Club of Chicago: Prospectus The Press Club of Chicago has become one of the most famous clubs of the world. Both in its former and present home it has made, a practice of entertaining distinguished people, especially those of literary and artistic talent. Hundreds of world-renowned men and women have been its guests. While such exercise of hospitality, doubtless, has contributed much to make the Club favorably known far and wide, still the chief reason of its fame as an organization lies in the character of its own membership - the individ uality of its members and what they have accomplished. No other club equals it as an organization of newspaper and literary me'n. Between 140 and 150 of its members have written books that have been published. Its magazine writers and play writers are numerous and among the most successful. Not a few of its members are favorably known as poets. Several are editors of well-known magazines. The leading newspaper men of Chicago, several hundred throughout the middle west, and representatives in all parts of the world are on its membership roll. To a greater extent than any other club in any city the Press Club of Chicago is an association of newspaper men, authors, writers, publishers and all those whose brains and energies find expression through the instrumentality of the printing press. By common consent the manage ment of the Club has always been in the hands of daily newspaper men. This is well shown by the fact that of the twenty different men, who have been elected president of the Club in its twenty-eight years of existence, all but one have been of that description. The one exception is that of the venerable editor of the Chicago Legal News Judge J. B. Bradwell. Doubtless this policy is a wise one for it emphasizes the fact that the organization is really a press club, notwithstanding authors and other literary workers, who are not newspaper men, are admitted to membership. Many editors and proprietors of trade papers and class publications are members, and.the Club often has been under obligation to them for their advice and aid in the management of its business affairs. There are no factions in the Club. Even a hotly contested election leaves no lasting differences. The Club is harmonious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.