Organization The Commercial Club of Chicago
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Purpose and History
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Members
Calendar of Events

Affiliated Organizations
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Civic Consulting Alliance
Renaissance Schools Fund
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Past Presidents
Levi Z. Leiter 1878
John W. Doane 1879
John W. Doane 1880
Orrin W. Potter 1881
Albert A. Sprague 1882
Augustus A. Carpenter 1883
John M. Clark 1884
Franklin MacVeagh 1885
Lyman J. Gage 1886
Adolphus C. Bartlett 1887
Eliphalet W. Blatchford 1888
Charles L. Hutchinson 1889
Elbridge G. Keith 1890
Marvin Hughitt 1891
Turlington W. Harvey 1892
Alexander C. McClurg 1893
William T. Baker 1894
Henry W. King 1895
Francis B. Peabody 1896
John J. Glessner 1897
Eugene Cary 1898
Cyrus H. McCormick 1899
William J. Chalmers 1900
William A. Fuller 1901
David B. Jones 1902
Martin A. Ryerson 1903
J. Harley Bradley 1904
Edward B. Butler 1905
George E. Adams 1906-1907
John V. Farwell 1907-1908
Rollin A. Keyes 1908-1909
Theodore W. Robinson 1909-1910
David R. Forgan 1910-1911
Frederic A. Delano 1911-1912
Clyde M. Carr 1912-1913
Benjamin Carpenter 1913-1914
Bernard E. Sunny 1914-1915
John W. Scott 1915-1916
James B. Forgan Sr. 1916-1917
Harrison B. Riley 1917-1918
Thomas E. Donnelley 1918-1919
Edgar A. Bancroft 1919-1920
Howard Elting 1920-1921
Samuel Insull 1921-1922
Bernard E. Sunny 1922-1923
Harry A. Wheeler 1923-1924
Hale Holden 1924-1925
Rufus C. Dawes 1925-1926
W. Rufus Abbott 1926-1927
Sewell L. Avery 1927-1928
Silas H. Strawn 1928-1929
Charles Piez 1929-1930
Fred W. Sargent 1930-1931
Melvin A. Taylor 1931-1932
Harold H. Swift 1932-1933
Edward L. Ryerson Jr. 1933-1934
Mark W. Cresap 1934-1935
Frederick A. Preston 1935-1936
Thomas E. Wilson 1936-1937
Philip R. Clarke 1937-1938
Alfred T. Carton 1938-1939
Ralph Budd 1939-1940
William McCormick Blair 1940-1941
Howard W. Fenton 1941-1942
Elmer T. Stevens 1942-1943
Laird Bell 1943-1944
James S. Knowlson 1944-1945
Aubrey H. Mellinger 1945-1946
James B. Forgan 1946-1947
Merle J. Trees 1947-1948
Fowler McCormick 1948-1949
Kenneth F. Burgess 1949-1950
Holman D. Pettibone 1950-1951
Robert E. Wood 1951-1952
James H. Douglas Jr. 1952-1953
William R. Odell Jr. 1953-1954
Rawleigh Warner 1954-1955
James F. Oates Jr. 1955-1956
Wesley M. Dixon 1956-1957
Homer J. Livingston 1957-1958
John L. McCaffrey 1958-1959
Fairfax M. Cone 1959-1960
James C. Downs Jr. 1960-1961
Franklin J. Lunding 1961-1962
Eric Oldberg, M.D. 1962-1963
Glen A. Lloyd 1963-1964
James L. Palmer 1964-1965
J. Harris Ward 1965-1966
David M. Kennedy 1966-1967
Leonard Spacek 1967-1968
Gaylord Freeman 1968-1969
William H. Avery 1969-1970
Virgil Martin 1970-1971
Robert S. Ingersoll 1971-1972
Robert W. Reneker 1972-1973
Edward Byron Smith 1973-1974
Thomas G. Ayers 1974-1975
Arthur M. Wood 1975-1976
Brooks McCormick 1976-1977
Robert D. Stuart Jr. 1977-1978
George A. Ranney Sr. 1978-1979
Roger E. Anderson 1979-1980
James F. Beré 1980-1981
Donald S. Perkins 1981-1982
Stanton R. Cook 1982-1983
John E. Swearingen 1983-1984
Silas B. Cathcart 1984-1985
Karl D. Bays 1985-1986
Richard B. Ogilvie 1986-1987
Newton N. Minow 1987-1988
Richard M. Morrow 1988-1989
William L. Weiss 1989-1990
B. Kenneth West 1990-1991
Edward A. Brennan 1991-1992
James J. O'Connor 1992-1993
Ardis Krainik 1993-1994
Edgar D. Jannotta 1994-1995

Chairmen
Richard L. Thomas 1995-1997
H. Laurance Fuller 1997-1998
John W. Madigan 1998-2001
Andrew J. McKenna 2001-2003
William A. Osborn 2003-2005
  Lester Crown 2005-2007
  John W. Rowe 2007-2009
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