CBA Record July-August 2024

ABA 2024 ANNUAL MEETING IN CHICAGO, IL

Atlas Stationers: For Your Lawyering Essentials Meredith Geller, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Or watch a volleyball game at one of the scores of nets set up after work. Keep walking to see the jugglers or trick skaters. Take your time; keep your own pace. Lake Michigan somehow calms us all.

Good writing is essential to good lawyering, and good pens make all writing better. One of the best places to find quality writing instruments is Atlas Stationers. First opened in 1939, Atlas is now the largest independent office supply and stationary retailer in Chicago. The staff is knowledgeable and helpful and the selection in their retail store is incredible. From pens to stationery, they can help you find it. Even more is available on their website. www. atlasstationers.com THE LAKEFRONT A Great Lake Kathleen Dillon Narko, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law It’s gorgeous. It’s inspiring. It’s accessible to all. And it is free. My must-do while you are in Chicago is a walk along the lake: Lake Michigan, that is. This is where Chicago goes to clear its mind. We are so fortunate to have 26 miles of uninterrupted shoreline here that is perfect for walking, running, or riding. The city seems far away with endless blue water beside you. Go in the morning and watch the sun rise as you take in the brisk breeze. Or go at dusk, my favorite time, when the lake and sky are the same azure blue. You can take a dip at North Avenue Beach, complete with palm trees (imported each summer—they don’t survive a Chicago winter!).

The Jewel of the Midwest Cliff Gately, Quarles & Brady

Thank you to CBA Record Editorial Board Member Pam Menaker of Clifford Law Offices for coordinating the distribution of this issue to attendees of the American Bar Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Lake Michigan has dazzled residents and visitors to the area for centuries. In the 1600’s, European explorers encountered descen dants of the Late Woodland Indians (Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi), who named the lake “Michi gami.” Nowadays, the ways to enjoy the lake are endless. The most accessible Northside beach in Chicago is probably Oak Street Beach, which hosts volleyball tournaments and other activities all summer. The most visited lake attraction in Chicago is Navy Pier. On the Southside, Promontory Point in Hyde Park (“The Point”) is popular and is well-known for its landscaping. Back on the Northside, you can find your way to the Theater on the Lake (2401 N. Lake Shore Dr.) and the upscale tavern, the Lakefront Restaurant. If you wander further north, visit the Waterfront Café (6219 North Sheridan Road).

BIG 10 FOOTBALL LORE: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO By Richard Lee Stavins

longer fielded a football team after 1939, until 1946 the U of C technically remained a member of the Big 10 Conference (then officially named the Western Conference). It formally withdrew that year. Today, the University of Chicago fields a football team—more like a football club— that plays in the NCAA’s Division 3 (the very lowest division). It recruits no one, offers no athletic scholarships, and for certain none of its players are ever drafted or signed or even interviewed by any National Football League professional team.

Chicago is home to one Big 10 Athletic Conference school: Northwestern Univer sity. Northwestern advertises itself around town as “Chicago’s Big 10 team.” But long ago, two Chicago area colleges were Big 10 schools: Northwestern and one other. That other college was then a national football powerhouse. Its name was the University of Chicago. Yes, the University of Chicago was a Big 10 member—for 50 years, from 1896 until 1946. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Chicago’s football coach was the immortal Amos Alonzo Stagg, whose University of Chicago Maroons won six Big 10 champi onships. (Side note: The world’s first sus tained, controlled nuclear chain reaction was achieved in 1942 by Enrico Fermi and his team of physicists underneath Stagg

Field, with the spot now marked by Henry Moore’s nuclear energy sculpture.) Jay Berwanger, first winner of the Heis man Trophy for the nation’s best college football player of the year, played for the University of Chicago Maroons. The phrase “Monsters of the Midway”—now applied to the Chicago Bears on those rare occa sions when they have a winning season— originally meant the University of Chicago Maroons. (The U of C then and now abuts Midway Plaisance, a/k/a 59th Street.) So, what became of University of Chica go football? In 1939, newly installed univer sity president Robert Maynard Hutchings decided that college football was incon sistent with college academics and abol ished the University of Chicago football program in one fell swoop. Although it no

Richard Lee Stavins, a shareholder at Robbins DiMonte, Ltd. in Chicago, concentrates his practice on trial and appellate litigation. He is a 50-year CBA member and serves on the Editorial Board of the CBA Record.

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