Chicago Civic Agencies; a Directory of Associations of Citizens of Chicago Interested in Civic Welfare1927 |
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ARMitage Asso Association of Chicago Auburn Park Austin Avenue Business Men's Avenue Improvement Belmont better BEVerly Boulevard Business Men's Association Calumet Central Chairman Chamber of Commerce charge of civic ciation Citizens Class Club of Chicago co-operation Committee Community Center Cook County Council County Bldg District East Englewood High School Parent-Teacher Hyde Park Improvement Association Improvement Club interest Irving Park John Kedzie Kenwood KILdare Lawndale League of Women Lincoln Lions Club ment Michigan Avenue Milwaukee Avenue Neighborhood-civic and commercial Neighborhood-civic and educational Neighborhood-educational North Clark Street North Michigan Norwood Park Objects Officer in charge Organized 1925 Organized and Incorporated Park Improvement Association Park Woman's Club Pres promote Property Owners RANdolph Ravenswood ROGers Park Roosevelt Road School Parent-Teacher Association social South Chicago South Shore STEwart Street Business Men's tion Union League Ward Branch welfare WENtworth West Pullman Woman's City Club Woman's Club Women Voters Women's Club Woodlawn
Popular passages
Page 66 - To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law ; to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice ; and to cultivate social intercourse among its members.
Page 67 - To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.
Page 155 - Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life; (4) the advancement of international understanding, good will, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men united in the ideal of service.
Page 115 - To promote the study of child problems, and by systematic agitation through the press and otherwise to create a permanent public sentiment for the establishment of wholesome, uplifting agencies, such as parks, playgrounds, gymnasiums, free baths, vacation schools, communal school settlements, and the like.
Page 79 - ... Association will demand that appointments to subordinate executive offices, with such exceptions as may be expedient, not inconsistent with the principle already mentioned, shall be made from persons whose fitness has been ascertained by competitive examinations open to all applicants properly qualified, and that removals shall be made for legitimate cause only, such as dishonesty, negligence or inefficiency, but not for political opinion or refusal to render party service ; and the Association...
Page 79 - The object of the Association shall be to establish a system of appointment, promotion and removal in the Civil Service, founded upon the principle that public office is a public trust, admission to which should depend upon proven fitness.
Page 71 - ... Chicago, 1902. $1.00. (300 copies). Originally printed in "Companion to the almanac; or, Yearbook of general information for 1853." Now reprinted for the first time. CHICAGO LIBRARY CLUB The Chicago library club was organized December 17, 1891 and incorporated February 11, 1893. The object of the club "is to increase by consultation and cooperation the usefulness of the libraries of Chicago and vicinity, to promote library interests and work, and to encourage good fellowship among those engaged...
Page 79 - Service, founded upon the principle that public office is a public trust, admission to which should depend upon proven fitness. To this end the Association will demand that appointments to subordinate executive offices, with such exceptions as may be expedient, not inconsistent with the principle already mentioned, shall be made from persons whose fitness has been ascertained by competitive examinations open to all applicants properly qualified, and that removals shall be made for legitimate cause...
Page 168 - To inculcate a higher appreciation of the value and sacred obligations of American citizenship; to maintain the civil and political equality of all citizens in every section of our common country and to aid in the enforcement of all laws enacted to preserve the purity of the ballot box.