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Top City Clubs
NAME/LOCATION/FOUNDED COMMENTS
1. DUQUESNE CLUB Legendary club where Carnegie dined;
Pittsburgh 1873 still boasts finest cuisine
2. CALIFORNIA CLUB Strikingly beautiful with 1,800 members
Los Angeles 1888 and a $9,000 initiation fee
3. METROPOLITAN CLUB Old World elegance for 1,600 members;
New York 1891 initiation fee of $3,000
4. PACIFIC UNION CLUB A bit stuffy and staid; has the fewest
San Francisco 1852 members--just 950
5. JONATHAN CLUB Offers 3,200 members downtown locale
Los Angeles 1895 and a beach club
6. CAPITAL CITY CLUB Pricey $40,000 initiation fee includes
Atlanta 1883 country club membership
7. UNION LEAGUE CLUB Boasts one of the finest art collections of
Chicago 1879 any private club in the world
8. CHICAGO CLUB The meeting place for Chicago's business
Chicago 1869 elite; busy for breakfast and lunch
9. UNIVERSITY CLUB Oxford and Cambridge transplanted; with
Chicago 1887 $750 initiation fee, academics dominate
10. MINNEAPOLIS CLUB Nearly as English as Boodles, it's the club-
Minneapolis 1883 biest of city clubs, with 1,100 members
DATA: JOHN R. SIBBALD ASSOCIATES INC., BUSINESS WEEK
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