Chicago Supporters
panel$250,000+
Arie & Ida Crown Memorial
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust
$100,000 - $249,999
Balyasny Foundation, Inc.
Best Portion Foundation / Tim Schwertfeger and Gail Waller
Harris Family Foundation / Stephanie and John Harris
Illinois State Board of Education
Joyce Foundation
McCormick Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
University of Phoenix / Apollo Group
$50,000 - $99,999
Barclays Capital
The Boeing Company
CME Group
Credit Suisse Americas Foundation
Ken & Anne Griffin Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation
Malott Family Foundation
Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation
$25,000 - $49,999
Robert W. Baird & Co. Foundation
Balyasny Asset Management, LP
Helen Brach Foundation
The Brinson Foundation
The John Buck Company Foundation
DeVry
The Gies Foundation
Gustafson Family Foundation
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc.
Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation
Reynolds Family Foundation
Steans Family Foundation
The Robert and Jamie Taylor Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Abra Prentice Foundation
Aon Corporation
Archer Daniels Midland
Vernon Armour
William Blair and Company
Blum-Kovler Foundation
The Chicago Community Foundation
The Comer Science and Education Foundation
Creative Artists Agency Foundation
The Dispatch Foundation
The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc.
Fifth Third Bank
Frontenac Company
GEM Realty Capital, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
HSBC - North America
InterSport, Inc.
Legacy Foundation, Inc.
Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
The Marmon Group, Inc.
Merge Healthcare
Molex Incorporated
Morgan Stanley
The Northern Trust Company
Perkins Investment Management
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation / Gigi Pritzker Pucker and Michael Pucker
B. T. Rocca Jr. Foundation
Ryan Enterprises Group
Albert J. Speh, Jr. and Claire R. Speh Foundation
Dean and Barbara White Foundation
Winston & Strawn
$5,000 - $9,999
Allyn Foundation
The Bill Bass Foundation
Chicago Board Options Exchange
CME Group Political Action Committee
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
MacLean-Fogg Company
McGraw Foundation
MMT Investments and Michael Tadin
Roundkeep Capital Advisors, LLC
The Siragusa Foundation
Sunny Chico and SPC Consulting LLC
Woodward Family Charitable Foundation
$1,000 - $4,999
Amsted Industries Foundation
Ariel Investments
Francis Beidler Foundation
Chicago Run
Franklin Philanthropic Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Rubin and Minnie Katz Foundation
Lakeview Investment Group
McCormack Family Foundation
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
McWethy Foundation
Perchance Inc.
The Private Bank
Quarles & Brady LLP
$250,000+
Dmitry Balyasny
Elona Balyasny
Mary and Paul Finnegan
Lindy and Michael Keiser
Bruce and Diana Rauner
Helen and Samuel Zell
$100,000 - $249,999
The Glasser & Rosenthal Family
Joe and Rika Mansueto
Alexandra and John Nichols
The Paulson Family Fund
Jackie and Levoyd Robinson
$50,000 - $99,999
Stephen Barney
Rebecca and Charles Besser
Credit Suisse
Elizabeth and Kent Dauten
Exelon Foundation
Jim and Karen Frank
Jill Garling and Thomas Wilson
Rachel Kohler and Mark Hoplamazian
Liz and Eric Lefkofsky
Frances and Elliot Lehman
Alicia and Peter Pond
The Querrey Simpson Charitable Foundation
Kristi and John Rowsell
$25,000 - $49,999
Ben and Cynthia Chereskin
Susan Crown and William Kunkler
Jennifer and Matt Darnall
Christina and Ron Gidwitz
Julie and Harry Kraemer
Mary Liz and Peter Lehman
Kennon McKee
Shawna and Jay Owen
James N. Perry, Jr. and Mary D. Perry
Deborah and Steve Quazzo
Julie and Brian Simmons
Paula Sneed and Lawrence Bass
Soros Fund Workplace Giving
Sue and Tim Sullivan
Liz and Richard Uihlein
David Vitale
Bruce and Beth White
$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
Jodi Block and Barry Malkin
Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand
Rebecca and Dan Blumenthal
Jackie and John Bucksbaum
Talbot and Tyler Cain
Couri Family Foundation
The Crown Family
James and Catherine Denny
Regan and Philip Friedmann
Phupinder Gill
Audrey and Jim Gorter
David and Juli Grainger
Jean and John Greene
Nicki and J. Ira Harris
Holly Hayes and Carl W. Stern
Lindy Hirschsohn and Chris Coetzee
Kellcie Fund
John H. Krehbiel, Jr.
Paula and John Lillard
Evie and Randy Lyon
David and Debbie MacKenzie
Holly and John Madigan
Katie and Norm Olson
Patricia and Paul Purcell
Chris and Anne Reyes
Stephen and Miriam Ritchie
Marcie and Avy Stein
John and Tobey Taylor
Marilynn and Carl Thoma
David Weinberg and Jerry Newton
Susan and Stephen Wilson
$5,000 - $9,999
Carlin and Julie Adrianopoli
Jill and Richard Almeida
Norm and Virginia Bobins
David Bradley
Mary and Chip Brennan
Terry Brumfield
Cissy and Willard Bunn
Chris and Elizabeth Butler
Richard Campbell
Ted Carlson
David and Liz Chandler
Debbie Cline and Carl Stumpf
Patricia Cox and Family
John and Wendy Cozzi
Joan DePree
Sarah and Jim DiMatteo
Nancy and David Donovan
Charles Edelstein
Michael Foradas
David and Alexandra Fox
Katherine and John Fox
Rodney Goldstein
Mary and David Grumhaus
Brian Gustavson
Margaret Hart
HCP & Company
Patty and Craig Henderson
Mellody Hobson
Vicki and Bill Hood
Abby and P.J. Huizenga
Cathy and Ethan Kahn
Lori and Stephen Kaufman
Connie and Dennis Keller
Steven Koch
Martin and Patricia Koldyke
Tom and Amy Kuhns
Joseph and Anne Linnen
Rodney Lubeznik
Michael J. Moore
Ellen Morgan and Sheldon Zenner
Clare Muana
Fayre and Bill Mynatt & Dovenmuehle Mortgage, Inc.
David and Suzu Neithercut
Gerald Nowak
Ellen and Jim O'Connor
William and Cathy Osborn
Jody and Sanford Perl
Kathy and Chris Perry
James and Cynthia Rowe
Benjamin S. Sher
Elizabeth Small
Leslie Smith and Michael Uzer
Kevin Spahn and Spahn Financial
Harrison and Lois Steans
Matthew Steinmetz
Chase and John Stevenson
Pam and Russ Strobel
John and Jill Svoboda
Edward Swan
Kevin and Ellen Van Wart
Barbara and William Welke
$1,000 - $4,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
George Bermingham
Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Bowen
David Callahan
Lon and Elizabeth Chow
Keith Crow and Elizabeth Parker
Marletta and Bob Darnall
Richard Elden
Scott and Kimberly Falk
Peter and Paula Fasseas
Larry and Barbara Field
Russell Foszcz and Family
Peter Gabriele
Sue and Melvin Gray
Yeo Hae and Mark Fennell
Karen G. Harrison & Walter G. Freedman
Beth Karlan
The Kensington Square Foundation
Gregory Kolb
Jeffrey S. Lowe
Matt McKee
Andrew McNally
Cheryl Meier
Robert S. Murley
Dennis Myers
Brent Neiman
Richard Porter
Jeffrey Richards and Eileen Bryne
Linda Stawicki
Chad Syverson
David F. Tracy
Zachary M. Grossman
Advisory Board
C. Christopher Coetzee, Managing Director of Robert W. Baird & Co.
C.H. Randolph Lyon, Vice Chairman of Robert W. Baird & Co.
Charles B. Edelstein, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Group, Inc.
Charles N. Besser President and CEO, Intersport, Inc.
Daniel H. Blumenthal, Managing Partner of Blue River Partners, LLC
Deborah Quazzo, Founder and Managing Partner, GSV Advisors
Dmitry Balyasny, Managing Partner, Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Helen Zell, Executive Director of Zell Family Foundation
Janet M. Knupp, President of Chicago Public Education Fund
Jay L. Owen, Jr., Vice President of J.P. Morgan Private Bank
John Harris, Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb, Inc, Wishbone Management, LP
John Rowsell, CEO of Man Investments
Juan Rangel, Chief Executive Officer, United Neighborhood Organization
Levoyd E. Robinson, Managing Principal of Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners, LLC
Matthew S. Darnall, Managing Director of Goldman Sachs & Co.
Michael L. Keiser, President of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
Paul J. Finnegan, Chairman, Co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
Paula A. Sneed, Former Executive Vice President of Kraft Foods
Peter G. Lehman, Managing Partner of Granite Creek Partners, LLC
Phupinder S. Gill, President of CME Group
Stephen Ritchie, Partner Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
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