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 ONE
OF THE OLDEST
AND GREATEST
TRADITIONS of
the city clubs
of Chicago is
the discussion
of
intellectual,
social, legal,
artistic,
historical,
scientific,
musical,
theatrical,
and
philosophical
issues in the
company of
educated,
bright, and
appropriately
provocative
individuals,
all under the
beneficent
influence of
substantial
amounts of
tobacco and
spirits.
The
Cigar Society
of Chicago
embraces this
tradition and
extends it
with its Informal
Smokers,
University
Series lectures,
and Cigar
Society
Dinners,
in which
cigars, and
from time to
time pipes and
cigarettes,
appear as an
important
component of
our version of
the classical
symposium.
Members of the
Union League
Club, the
Chicago Club,
the Standard
Club, and the
University
Club, as well
as any
other
like-minded
ladies and
gentlemen,
are all
welcome to
join our
society.
Reservations
are required.
To be included
in the Cigar
Society's
membership
list, write to
the Secretary
at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
Upcoming
Events
Charlie
Wheelan,
Senior
Lecturer,
Harris School
of Public
Policy,
University of
Chicago, will
talk about his
new book,
Naked
Statistics.
Tuesday,
May 22, 2012.
Past Events
Sam
Kahan,
The Economy,
Interest Rates, and
What to Expect After
the Election.
Tuesday, May
8, 2012.
Rizwan
Kadir,
President of
the Pakistan
Club,
University of
Chicago,
talked about The
Kashmir Issue.
Tuesday, May
1, 2012.
Kerry
Luft,
Nation and
World Editor,
Chicago
Tribune,
was
interviewed by
Bill
Daley on
Presidential
Politics.
Tuesday, April
17, 2012.
Robert
A. Holland,
author of Chicago
in
Maps:1612-2002,
gave
a
slide show of
Chicago's
history
through old
maps.
Tuesday, March
27, 2012.
Steve
Rosenbloom,
sports
columnist for
the Chicago
Tribune,
told
stories.
Tuesday,
January 24,
2012.
August
Higginson hosted
a Cigar
Society Salon
at his
home and
studio on
Stratford
Place in
Lakeview.
Tuesday,
January 10,
2012.
Scott
Stantis,
editorial
cartoonist for
the Chicago
Tribune,
talked about The
Art of the
Editorial.
Tuesday,
December 13,
2011.
Amanda
Wolff,
chanteuse of
the Green
Mill,
enchanted.
Col. Gordon
played MC.
Tuesday,
November 15,
2011.
Joyce
Selander,
the first
women to trade
financial
futures in the
pits at the
Chicago Board
of Trade, toldl stories and sign copies
of her new
book.
Tuesday,
October 25,
2011.
Iranian-American
author Nahid
Sewell talked
about the
impact of
religious
fundamentalism
in the Middle
East.
Tuesday,
October 11,
2011.
Charles
Middleton,
President of
Roosevelt
University,
opened our
fall speaker
series with a
back-to-school
talk on
Re-engineering
Higher
Education.
Tuesday,
September 2,
2011.
To kick off
the new fall
season, August
Higginson hosted
a
Cigar Society
Salon
at his
home and
studio on
Stratford
Place in
Lakeview.
Tuesday,
September 20,
2011.
On
nice Tuesdays
this last
summer,
the Cigar
Society met
outdoors in
the dramatic
courtyard at
the Chicago
Board of Trade
Building, 141
West Jackson.
Filmmaker and
Photojournalist
Al
Rasho
talked about Making Documentary Films.
May 24, 2011.
Reem
Shafi gave a
special report
on Libya:
Gaddafi, the
Revolutions,
and the Future
of the Middle
East.
May 17, 2011.
Robert
Wallace,
Professor of
Classics at
Northwestern
University,
asked
Why
Did the
Athenians Kill
Socrates?
May 10, 2011.
¡Fiesta
Dominicana!
An Evening of Dominican
Cigars, Rum,
and Food.
Hosted by
Patricia Pérez
of the
Ministry of
Tourism of the
Dominican
Republic, the
Lounge at Iwan
Ries, and the
Cigar
Society.
May 3, 2011.
Michael
Turner,
Distinguished
Service
Professor of
Astronomy and
Astrophysics
at the
University of
Chicago, and
Director of
the Kavli
Institute for
Cosmological
Physics, will
talk about
God, the
Multiverse,
and Cosmic
Arrogance.
April 26,
2011.
Lauren
Viera,
reporter for
the Chicago
Tribune and
author of its
Nightcap column
on cocktails,
talked about
cocktails and
led a tasting
while Amanda
Wolff,
front singer
of the swing
band Flat
Cats, loosened
up the crowd
with some
classic
jazz. A Lesson in Mixology:
The Art of
Jazz, the
Science of
Cocktails, and
the Allure of
the
Smoke-filled
Room.
April 12,
2011.
Anthony
Grosch,
Lecturer
Emeritus in
English at
UIC, read from
Four
Great Chicago
Novels of the
1930s and 40s.
April 5, 2011.
Augustus
Higginson,
Chicago
Architecture
Foundation,
talked about The Rise of the Skyscraper
in Chicago:
1955 to the
Present,
on March 22,
2011.
Smack in the
middle of
Chicago's
Golden Gloves
tournament,
Loyola's Allen
Frantzen talked
about
White Collar
Boxing: Taking
the Sting Out
of the Ring.
March 8, 2011.
On George
Washington's
birthday and
mayoral
election day
in Chicago,
the Tribune's
Amy
Guth
talked with
Bill Daley
about
Digital News
and Social
Media.
February 22,
2011.
Irish
playwright
Terry Boyle talked
about Civil
Rights: A Sign
of Civility.
Growing up
during the
Troubles in
Northern
Ireland on
February 8,
2011.
George
Souri explained
Why
Philosophy is
Relevant in
21st Century
on January 25,
2011.
Augustus
Higginson and
Bill Daley hosted
the Cigar
Society Winter
Mixer in Lake
View.
January 18,
2011.
Brendan
Reilly,
Alderman, 42d
Ward, took
questions on The City Budget.
December 7,
2010.
James
Janega,
TribNation
manager for
the
Chicago
Tribune,
on The
Life of a War
Correspondent
in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
October 5,
2010.
Chris
Jones,
chief theater
critic at the
Chicago
Tribune, talked
about
The Death of
the Critic,
September 28,
2010.
Rooftop Mixer
in the Loop,
September 14,
2010.
Charles
Middleton, President
of Roosevelt
University,
Jobs, Higher
Education, and
the Future of
America,
September 7,
2010.
Abe
Kocheril,
Professory of
Medicine at
the University
of Illinois,
Letter from
Urbana.
In the Loop and in Beverly, June 18 and 19, 2010.
Ernie and Marco
Freudman
hosted a
Rooftop Smoker
at QuotePro,
May 25, 2010.
Mark Warden,
past president
of Daley
College and
Loop
College,
The
Community
College in
American
Education,
Tuesday, May
11, 2010.
Bill Daley,
Chicago
Tribune, An
Interview with
Ellen Warren,
Tuesday, April
26, 2010.
Lee Allison,
the Lee
Allison
Company, How
to Tie One On:
The History
and
Contemporary
Significance
of the
Necktie,
Tuesday, April
13, 2010.
Augustus Higginson,
Chicago
Architectural
Foundation, The
Rise of the
Skyscraper in
Chicago,
Tuesday, March
30, 2010.
Asad Hayaud Din,
consul of
Pakistan, Pakistan,
Afghanistan,
and U.S.
Policy in the
Region,
March 16,
2010.
Sam
Sisodia,
the Thomas
Reynolds Sr.
Family
Professor of
Neurosciences
and Director
of the Center
for Molecular
Neurobiology
at the
University of
Chicago, on
the causes of
Alzheimer's
Disease,
Tuesday,
February 23,
2010.
Rick Kogan,
Chicago
Tribune,
on various
things,
Tuesday,
January 26,
2010.
Augustus Higginson
hosted an
Informal
Smoker in Lake
View,
January 12,
2010.
Jeff Dreyfuss,
Metropolis
Coffee
Company, How
to Drink
Coffee,
Tuesday,
December 8,
2009.
High C's on
the High Seas:
Chicago Opera
Theater's
Opera and
Cigar Cruise,
September 24,
2009.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted a
Salon in Lake
View,
September 14,
2009.
Max and Kim
Kort
hosted a
Cigar Society
Rooftop Mixer,
September 1,
2009.
Bill Daley,
wine and food
critic, Chicago
Tribune,
on Wining
and Smoking,
Tuesday, June
30, 2009.
Billy O'Hara,
owner, Jack
Schwartz
Importer,
hosted a
cocktail and
cigar party in
the Board of
Trade Building,
June 11, 2009.
Randy Mosher,
author is Tasting
Beer and
Radical
Brewing,
led a beer
tasting on
Tuesday, May
19, 2009.
John
Nelson
and Charles
Hannon
led a
tour of
historic
houses in Lake
Geneva,
Wisconsin, May
29-30, 2009.
Abraham
Kocheril,
Director of
Clinical
Electrophysiology,
UIC, talked
about Therapy
for the Heart:
Music (and
Wine),
April 28,
2009.
Daniel
B. Honigman,
Tribune
Interactive,
on Social
Media and the
Future of
Journalism,
April 14,
2009.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted a
St. Patrick's
Day Cigar
Party in Lake
View,
March 17,
2009.
Robert
Wallace,
Professor of
Classics,
Northwestern
University,
gave An
*illustrated*
history of
Greek Sex
Lives in the
Classical Age,
March 10,
2009.
Charles
Wheelan,
Senior
Lecturer in
Economics,
University of
Chicago, Our
Economic
Situation,
February 24,
2009.
Samuel
C. Dudley,
MD, PhD,
Professor and
Chief of
Cardiology,
University of
Illinois at
Chicago, on
Mending
Broken Hearts,
Tuesday,
February 10,
2009.
Donald
H. J. Hermann,
Professor of
Law and
Philosophy,
DePaul
University, on
Shrinks,
Torture, and
Terror,
Tuesday,
January 20,
2009.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted an
Informal
Smoker in
Lake View,
January 13,
2009.
Sebastian
Melmoth,
special to
Cigar News,
wrote about
Infamous
'U-Club Four'
SUSPENDED for
Sixty Days,
December 2008.
Charles
Middleton,
president of
Roosevelt
University, on
Funding
Higher
Education: Who
pays? Who
should pay?
December 9,
2008.
Asad
Hayaud Din,
Consul of
Pakistan, on The
War on Terror
-- Score Card:
Pakistan,
Afghanistan,
and the Region,
November 18,
2008.
Jeff
Dean
hosted an Election
Night Dinner
and Cigar
Party in Hyde
Park, with
live jazz from
the Ben
Paterson trio,
November 4,
2008.
Jorge
del Castillo,
Associate
Professor of
Emergency
Medicine at
Northwestern
University and
Associate
Chief of the
Department of
Emergency
Medicine at
Evanston
Hospital,
talked about The
Emergency Room,
October 28,
2008.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted a Salon
in Lake View,
September 15,
2008.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted a Salon
in Lake View,
June 17, 2008.
Achy
Obejas,
Pulitzer-prize
winning
Chicago
journalist,
novelist, and
poet, talked
about Cuba:
What's Next?
April 29,
2008.
Jeffrey
Dean
hosted the
Cigar Society
at his
apartment
in Hyde Park,
April 15,
2008.
Jeff's musical
guests were
the Ben
Paterson
Trio---"Truly
fabulous."
Ted
Cohen,
expert on
esthetic
theory and
professor of
philosophy at
the University
of Chicago,
told jokes.
April 1, 2008.
Ron
Dorfman
gave a slide
show of
pictures from
Harold!
Photographs
from the
Harold
Washington
Years,
by Salim
Muwakkil,
Antonio
Dickey, and
Marc
PoKempner.
March 18,
2008.
Edward
Hamilton,
Ministry of
Rum,
lectured and
hosted a rum
tasting.
March 4, 2008.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted an
Informal
Smoker,
February 12,
2008, in Lake
View.
Robert
Karrow,
Curator of
Special
Collections,
Newberry
Library, on
"Maps: Finding
our Place in
the
World,"
December 11,
2007.
Allen
Frantzen,
professor of
English at
Loyola
University and
author of
"Bloody Good:
Chivalry,
Sacrifice, and
the Great
War", gave a
slide show and
talked about
war memorials.
November 13,
2007.
Stephen
Presser,
the Raoul
Berger
Professor of
the History of
Law at
Northwestern
University,
talked about The
Rule of Law in
America:
Observations
on Recent
Supreme Court
Decisions
over dinner on
October 11,
2007.
Jesse
Gram,
Lyric Opera,
gave an
overview of
the upcoming
season.
September 25,
2007.
Charles
Middleton,
president of
Roosevelt
University,
posed the
question, "History
Repeats
Itself---or
does it?"
September 11,
2007.
George
Thiruvathukal,
professor of
computer
science at
Loyola, "Episodes
in the History
of Information
Technology."
August 28,
2007.
John
Nelson,
Chicago Plan
Commission,
hosted a
Cigar Society
Garden Party
on July 31,
2007.
The
Cigar Society
observed the
anniversary of
Yale
University
professor
Hiram
Bingham's
rediscovery
of Machu
Picchu,
the Lost City
of the Incas,
in the
Peruvian
Andes, on July
24, 1911.
Augustus
Higginson
hosted
the Cigar
Society Summer
Mixer in Lake
View, June 19,
2007.
Ted
Foss,
associate
director of
the Center for
East Asian
Studies at the
University of
Chicago,
talked about Jesuits
in China.
June 5, 2007.
Alexander
("the Great")
Sherman
and Darius
("the Third")
Gill
read scenes
from their
screenplay 334:
Battle on the
Granicus.
May 22,
2007.
Charles
Wheelan,
lecturer in
public policy
at the
University of
Chicago,
talked about
public policy.
May 8, 2007.
The
Cigar Society
observed
the
610th
anniversary of
Geoffrey
Chaucer's
first reading
of the Canterbury
Tales, at
the court of
Richard II,
April 17,
2007.
Jack
Zimmerman
opened the
spring
baseball
season with
readings
from his
southside-Chicago
baseball
novel, Gods
of the Andes.
David O'Connor
celebrated his
birthday.
April 3, 2007.
The
Cigar Society
observed the
anniversary of
Douglas
MacArthur's
famous
utterance "I
shall return"
on
March 20, 1942
in South
Australia, as
he retreated,
on orders from
President
Franklin
Roosevelt,
from his
worsening
position in
Bataan, in the
Battle of the
Philippines.
March 20,
2007.
Robert
Wallace,
professor of
classics at
Northwestern
University,
presented A
Whirlwind Tour
through Greek
and Roman
Coins,
March 6, 2007.
Rick
Kogan
and Charles
Osgood,
Chicago
journalists,
talked about
their book,
"Chicago
Sidewalks,"
February 22,
2007.
The
Cigar Society
observed the
96th
anniversary of
the birth of
Ronald Reagan,
February 6,
2007.
Mark
Warden,
past president
of Daley
College and U
of C PhD under
Leo Strauss, Leo
Strauss and
Neoconservatism,
January 23,
2007.
The
Cigar Society
commemorates
the
speakeasy.
November 28,
2006.
Curtis
Tuckey
led the group
on a
round-the-world
tour of
private clubs,
November 14,
2006.
A
Cigar Dinner
at the Tower
Club
featuring old-
and new-world
dishes, on
Columbus Day,
October 12,
2006.
Douglas
Johnson
and
John Nelson
on Martin
Luther and
Reproduction
(respectively).
A
classic!
August 8,
2006.
Jeffrey Dean and
David
Morris
on Sartorial
Formalism.
July
11, 2006.
A Midsummer's
Eve scotch
tasting.
June 20, 2006.
Craig
Trumpeter
and Mary
Springfels
in a very rare
viola da gamba
duet at
the Tower
Club. June 7,
2006.
Jorge
del Castillo
read from the
book,
Holy
Smoke: A
Literary Romp
through the
History of the
Cigar,
by Cuban-born
British
novelist
Guillermo
Cabrera
Infante
(winner of the
1997 Cervantes
Prize), and
reminisced
about old
Cuba.
May 30, 2006.
The
Cigar Society
observed much
in the
month of April
2006.
The
Cigar Society
observed the
70th birthday
of Peruvian
novelist Mario
Vargas Llosa.
Victor
Tutiven
recounted, "I
was twelve
years old when
Mario Vargas
Llosa, the
Nobel Prize
winner, then
running for
president of
Peru, came to
my mother's
small store in
the Amazon
jungle looking
for
cigarettes...."
March 28,
2006.
The
Cigar Society
observed the
anniversary of
the birth of
Albert
Einstein,
March 14,
2006.
Billy
Lombardo,
Chicago
author, read
from his book
The Logic
of a Rose
during a
cigar dinner
at the
University
Club,
February 2,
2005.
Classicists Gregory
O'Leary
(Northwestern
'84) and Alexander
Sherman
(Princeton
'97) read,
with
translation,
from
Suetonius's Lives
of the Caesars
('Divus
Julius,' sec
32) on the
anniversary of
Julius
Caesar's
utterance of "iacta alea est" ("the die is
cast") on this
date in 49
BC.
January 10,
2005.
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