CHAPTER THIRTEEN
SINCE ITS founding in 1879, the venerable Federation Club of Chicago has been synonymous with power and prestige. Considered one of the leading private clubs in the city, it has always been one of the key places movers and shakers of that community go to get things done, brokering the power and prestige each brings to the table from their respective spheres of influence. Even when a person has no more important objective than simply to fill his or her belly, it is still considered by many a good place to be seen.
Both Tariq Nasir and Scott Kruse were members. Nasir’s father-in-law, Lawrence Hardesty, had proposed him for membership shortly after he joined Hardesty’s development firm back in 1992, and Nasir had used the club as a preferred place to do business ever since.
