Merchants Club

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The Merchants Club was a predecessor club to The Commercial Club of Chicago. It was organized in Chicago in 1896. It merged with the Commercial Club in 1907.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Online Encyclopedia of Chicago |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10728.html |title= Letter to Members of the Merchant's Club, 1906 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |department=Historical Source |author= Merchants Club Executive Committee |year=1906}} Its leaders included Charles G. Dawes, Frederic A. Delano, and Charles H. Wacker. It was responsible for commissioning Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (1909), also known as Burnham's plan.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10734.html |encyclopedia=Online Encyclopedia of Chicago |department=Historical Source |author=Merchants Club |title= Merchants Club Committee Minutes, 1906 |year=1906 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society}}