Excerpt from Year-Book, 1921-22 The commercial club, organized December 27, 1877, and the merchants club OF chicago, organized Decem ber 11, 1896, more efficiently to advance the public wel fare and the commercial interests of Chicago by co-op erative effort, social intercourse, and a free interchange Of views, were united February 11, 1907, under the name of the commercial club OF chicago. 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.