Fortnightly of Chicago

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| name = Fortnightly of Chicago

| formation = 1876

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| image = Bryan Lathrop House, 120 East Bellevue Place, Chicago (Cook County, Illinois) - correct version.jpg

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| type = Woman's club

| named_after =

| founder = Kate Newell Doggett

| founding_location = Chicago, Illinois

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| merged =

| website = {{URL|fortnightlychicago.org/}}

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The Fortnightly of Chicago is a woman's club founded in Chicago in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett.{{cite book |last1=Croly |first1=Jane Cunningham |title=The history of the woman's club movement in America |date=1898 |publisher=H. G. Allen & Co. |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwomansc00crol/page/60 60]-61 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwomansc00crol}} It is the oldest women's association in Chicago.{{cite web |title=MMS Collection Abstract: Fortnightly of Chicago (Organization) Records |url=https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=750 |website=The Newberry |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=15 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015002934/https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=750 |url-status=dead }}

Kate Newell Doggett served as the first president from 1873 through 1879. Early members include Jane Addams, Janet H. Ayer, Amanda M. Bliss, Susan M. Hamilton, Ellen Martin Henrotin, Ellen R. Jewitt, Mary Hunt Loomis, Emily (Mrs. Franklin) MacVeagh, Bertha Palmer, and Mary Wilmarth.

In 1922, the Fortnightly purchased the Lathrop House at 120 E Bellevue Place from Helen Aldis Lathrop.{{cite web |title=The Fortnightly |url=https://fortnightlychicago.org/public/the-fortnightly/ |website=The Fortnightly of Chicago |access-date=15 October 2018}} The club still occupies that building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.{{cite web |title=Bryan Lathrop House |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/74000753 |website=NPGallery Digital Asset Management System |access-date=15 October 2018 |language=en}}