The City Club has existed as a prominent Cleveland institution since 1912, serving as a meeting place for the exchange of ideas on public issues of local, national, and international concern. Its most visible educational function is the weekly City Club Forums featuring well-known speakers. Over the years the hundreds of distinguished personalities presented have included politicians, labor and business leaders, scientists, educators, clergy and entertainers. The speeches are followed by a question and answer session. Cleveland State University is the depository for published and taped materials of the City Club. The collection consists of over eight hundred tapes from 1963 to about 1980. It was decided in 1993 to move the collection into Special Collections.