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[[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Addison Meeting Room]] is an assembly affiliated in its latter years with the [[Tunbridge Wells Brethren]], that started . John Nelson Darby included Chicago in Chicago his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862. In 1866 with , a married couple that was breaking bread, who had emigrated that year from [[England]], . They were previously involved with a meeting that had started in that part of England a year prior by a J.C., as per [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/chapter-11/walter-potter/gathering-up-the-fragments/w-potter/la139533 ''Gathering Up the Fragments''] by Walter Potter (who joined them in 1868).
This meeting met thru at least 1951, and 1952 when they moved to Oak Park when in order to house [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/ Bible Truth Publishers] relocated there , directed by John Erisman & Ralph Rule, which was moving from St. Louis, Missouri, thru . In the 1980's when it relocated again to Addison, Illinois to expand publishing space where it presently the assembly currently meets as a TW-N assembly. John Nelson Darby also included Chicago in his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862.
For many years, they hosted an annual conference in late summer that was sometimes attended by as many as 1500 brethren, initially at a Missouri-Synod Lutheran [https://www.cuchicago.edu/ Concordia University], then in 1957 they started at [[Wheaton College]], and some of the people stayed in dorms named after Nate Saint and Jim Elliot who died in 1956. Then, by the late 1970's they met at hotels founded by John Willard Marriott, Sr. (1900-1984), an LDS entrepreneur, and in more recent years at BTP. Recent conference Conference recordings may be found at [https://www.bibleconferencerecordings.com/conferences/chicago-il/chicago-conference-2022/ BCR].
=Locations=
* 121 Dearborn St. +1884+
* 1865 Ogden Ave. +1911+
* California Ave. +1952
* BTP, Oak Park 1952-1980's
* BTP, Addison 1980's-present
=Meeting Times=
* William E. Clough +1911+
** Business: 17 West South Water St.
** ResienceResidence: 3229 Groveland Ave.
* William P. Haight +1911+
** 6947 Normal Blvd.