Education and Early Career
After Dunne graduated from high school in 1871, he was sent to Ireland to attend Trinity College in Dublin. His father wanted his son to be educated at the alma mater of Irish patriot, Robert Emmet. Among his classmates was the author Oscar Wilde. Dunne did extremely well at Trinity, but was forced to leave one year short of graduation, after his father suffered a financial setback.
Dunne returned to Illinois, and finished his education at Union College of Law in Chicago, where his family had settled in 1877. Soon after graduation he married the daughter of a Chicago businessman, Elizabeth Kelly, and started a prosperous legal practice.
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