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The Unity Building in Chicago, Illinois, at 127 North Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop, was a 17-story building [1] that was once the tallest skyscraper in Chicago. Gustave Loehr had an office in this building, and it was in his office that Rotary Club of Chicago, held its first club meeting, on February 23, 1905. [2]
The office was later reconstructed on the sixteenth floor of Rotary International headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, where it remains a memorial to the legacy of the first Rotary meeting. Loehr died of Bright's Disease on May 23, 1918 in Chicago and is buried in Carlinville City Cemetery. On July 21, 2004, members of the Carlinville Rotary ...
Rotary International is an international service organization based in Evanston, ... first RI President 1910–12, Rotary Club of Chicago, IL; Mark Hatfield, Governor
By 1910, at least 15 new clubs had begun in major cities. That August, the existing 16 Rotary Clubs held a national convention in Chicago. There they unanimously chose to unify as the National Association of Rotary Clubs. Eventually, the organization became the International Association of Rotary Clubs, helping to realize Harris's dream worldwide.
The Rockford Rotary Club has donated more than $182,000 in this effort while over $2 million has been contributed from Rotary District 6420 in northwest Illinois, which has more than forty clubs ...
Rotaract began as a program of Rotary International, and its first club was founded in 1968 by Charlotte North Rotary Club, [37] located in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2019, Rotaract went from being a program of Rotary International to being a membership type of Rotary International, elevating its status to resemble that of Rotary clubs.
Jean Thomson Harris (6 November 1881 – 9 November 1963) was the wife of Paul Harris, [1] a lawyer who founded the first Rotary Club in Chicago in 1905. She supported the organisation but was never allowed to join because she was a woman.
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