The Association Forum of Chicagoland is a non-profit professional organization for association professionals and supplier-partners. As of 2007, it serves over 4,000 members.
Founded in 1916, the Association Forum was first known as the Chicago Business Secretaries Forum, then changed its name in the 1930s to Trade Association Executives Forum of Chicago, then to the Association Executives Forum of Chicago in the 1950s, then to the Chicago Society of Association Executives in the 1960s, and finally to its current title in the 1990s.
Famous quotes containing the words association and/or forum:
“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)