Download or read book A History of the Chicago Club (Classic Reprint) written by Edward T. Blair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Chicago Club It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that the early settlers of Chicago did not come here for their health. Few of them had enjoyed much previous experience of clubs, and if their Opinion had been requested would probably have pro nounced them an undesirable influence in the community. What little leisure the intense activity of their lives per mitted they preferred to spend at their own firesides, and many of those who are now Chicago's wealthiest citizens were then young clerks who slept over their places of business, from motives of prudence or economy, and were too much occupied in laying the foundations of their fortunes to feel any need of clubs. 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.