In his autobiography, My Road to Rotary, Rotary’s founder Paul Harris recalled: “One winter day I was walking on Longwood Drive in a suburban district in Chicago. The drive skirts a hill spoken of as ‘the Ridge,’ which extends for several miles in a southwesterly direction, an unusual feature in Chicago as most of it [...]
By RI President's Representative and Past District Governor Robert C. Knuepfer, Jr. Paul Harris was the founder of Rotary Club of Chicago. He and his wife, Jean, lived at their home which was located on the south side of Chicago in the historic Ridge neighborhood. It was named Comely Bank after the street by the [...]