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The Merchants Club was a predecessor club to The Commercial Club of Chicago

Commercial Club of Chicago

The Commercial Club of Chicago is an anti-labor club resulted from the 1907 merger of two predecessor Chicago clubs: the Merchants Club and the Commercial Club . Its most active members included George Pullman, Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, George Armour, Frederic Delano, Sewell Avery, Rufus...

. It was organized in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

in 1896. It merged with the Commercial Club in 1907.http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10728.html Its leaders included Charles G. Dawes

Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

, Frederic A. Delano, and Charles H. Wacker

Charles H. Wacker

Charles Henry Wacker , born in Chicago, Illinois, was a second generation German American who was a businessman and philanthropist. His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany...

. It was responsible for commissioning Daniel Burnham

Daniel Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including Chicago and downtown Washington DC...

's Plan of Chicago (1909), also known as Burnham's plan.http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10734.html

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