The Bohemian Club (Czech: Česká beseda) is a club founded in 1899 that was frequented by Chicago's Czech elite, as well as the visiting elite from Czechoslovakia. The club was used as a place to share Czech culture, drama, music and literature.[1]

It was visited by numerous well-known people of Bohemian descent, such as Anton Cermak, Rudolf Friml, George Halas and Otto Kerner Jr.[2] It also served as host to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia.[3] It is active in the west suburbs of Chicago to this day.

References

  1. ↑ Frank S. Magallon, Chicago's Little Village (2010) p 37
  2. ↑ Irving Cutler, Chicago's Jewish West Side (2009) p 46
  3. ↑ Irving Cutler, Chicago, metropolis of the mid-continent (1973) p 101
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