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President William Howard taft sits in the spot of the guest of honor at the 1910 ICF St. Patrick's day Dinner. A special throne-like chair was constructed to support his large girth.
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The Grand Ballroom of the LaSalle Hotel was the venue for the greatest celebration in IFC history when President William Howard Taft came to speak to the Club. The President sits under the American Flag.
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IFC guests at the Dinner with President Taft at the LaSalle Hotel. American Flags and the Irish Harp and Shamrock flag festooned the banquet room.
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IFC guests at the Dinner with President Taft at the LaSalle Hotel. American Flags and the Irish Harp and Shamrock flag festooned the banquet room.
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IFC's 1st President Edward f. Dunne and Mrs. Dunne. He served as Illinois Governor from 1913 to 1917. He remains the only citizen to serve as both Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor.
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father Maurice J. Dorney, pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Canaryville and charter member of the IFC.
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Michigan Avenue, Chicago's grand boulevard, thick with automobiles denting the city's sturdy pre-war prosperity.
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Archbishop George William Mundelein, Chicago's first non-Irish Archbishop, succeeded Archbishop Quigley in 1916. He paid a visit t the IFC Dinner on his first Chicago St. Patrick's Day.
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Dublin became an armed camp during Sinn Fein's Easter rising of 1916. It was unpopular with many IFC members who feared allied disunity during World War I.
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The Proclamation of the Irish Republic was proclaimed in front of the general Post Office in Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street, Dublin in the first moments of the 1916 Rising.
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Conscription of Irish men into the British Army during World War I was a highly controversial issue. The Irish had little time for either European Monarch at the center of the fight. "We serve neither King nor Kaiser" was their anthem.
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Irish Delegates to the Paris Peace Conference. IFC President Edward F. Dunne struggled to help establish their legitimate place there to no avail. Seated left, Eamon DeValers, right, Arthur Griffiths.
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