Excerpt from The Commercial Club of Chicago: The Commercial Club, Organized 1877; The Merchants Club, Organized 1896; United 1907; Year Book 1911-12 Postponed, shall defer the admission of such nominee. Only one candidate at a time shall be approved by the Executive Committee or submitted for election. 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.