James E. Babb, a 1884 graduate of Union College of Law, wrote about his alma mater in 1889.Babb, who became a prominent attorney in Chicago and later Idaho, declared Chicago a “pre-eminently fit place for a Law School.” “As certainly as Chicago shall become the heart of commerce of this continent, so surely will it be the place of great litigations, great lawyers, great judges, great law-writers, great law-libraries, and, in consequence, the place of a great law school, — the Union College of Law.” Union College of Law …