The first Baha’i national conference was held in Chicago on 26 November, 1907. Delegates from various local communities in America attended this event, including a dozen Baha’is from Chicago. It was held at the house of Corinne True. The purpose of this informal gathering was to choose a suitable site for the Temple. It should be noted that they didn’t visit the site in Wilmette where the Temple was eventually built. (‘The Baha’i World’, volume X, p.179; ‘The Baha’i Faith in America’, vol. 2, by Robert Stockman, p. 280)