The membership of the Club, as with Rotary clubs throughout the world, represents a broad cross-section of community leaders: architects, attorneys, bankers, contractors, corporate executives, developers, realtors, restaurateurs, village officials, etc. Service above self is the order of the day, Lake in the Hills Rotarians, welcome others to join them in servicing both their local community and the global community. We hope you will take a few minutes to look around the site, if you are interested in learning more about our club please join us for lunch.

The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on February 23rd, 1905, by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture the same friendly spirit in a service club that he had felt in the small towns of his youth, created Rotary.

The name "Rotary" is derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices. Rotary International has grown over the past century and is now an association of over 31,256 Rotary clubs throughout the world, including every state of the U.S. and over 163 countries and geographical regions.

The Object of Rotary

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintances as an opportunity for service
2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian?s personal, business and community life;
4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think, say or do

• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?