April 3, 1971 – Roger Henn, the Executive
Director of the Union League Club of Chicago, pens a guest editorial for the Chicago Tribune concerning plans for a
federal correctional facility at Clark and Van Buren Streets. He writes, “Chicago has an almost
unbelievable opportunity for development of a great tract of land immediately
adjacent to the Loop … Here is an opportunity to build a ‘city within a city’ …
Housing of all varieties could be built that would retain the white-collar
workers who are now fleeing to the suburbs.
Here, also could be more expensive dwellings for Loop businessmen … Not
needed is the proposal of the federal government to place a penal institution
and gigantic parking facility squarely on the gateway to this promising area …
What is needed is overall planning and cooperation, not spot development for
the convenience of the federal government with the resulting loss to all of
Chicago.” [Chicago Tribune, April 3,1971] The
above photo of Harry Weese’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, completed in
1975, is proof that the federal government ultimately got its way.
April 3, 1909 -- The University Club at Michigan and Monroe is opened as 500 members and 700 guests participate in the ceremonies. Members wear academic garb representing their colleges and march in a procession from the old club headquarters on Dearborn to the banquet hall on the ninth floor of the new quarters. There a 75-person glee club joins a 30-piece orchestra and a pipe organ, and "the big dining hall reverberated with the songs of colleges east and west. Latin hymns, drinking songs, chants and serenades were punctuated with yells and cheers." [Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1909] A banquet is served on the eighth floor. The Holabird and Roche design still occupies its place on Michigan Avenue where University Club members are still active.
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