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Committees

Housing & Community Development
Sensible Growth Committee
Regional Planning & Investments Committee
Government Relations


Housing & Community Development

This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with housing affordability and equitable, balanced development. The committee is co-chaired by Stephen M. Porras, president, Axia Development, Inc., and Maria P. Hibbs. 

Stephen M. Porras

Maria P. Hibbs

Projects:

Mark A. Angelini

Mercy Housing Lakefront


Bennett Applegate

Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen, P.C.


Forrest D. Bailey

Draper and Kramer


David E. Baker

Illinois Institute of Technology


Lee Brown

Teska Associates, Inc.


Karen S. Butler

Great Harbor Advisors


Paul C. Carlisle

Wintrust Financial Corporation


Pamela Daniels-Halisi

The PrivateBank


Paul B. Fischer

Peter Friedman

Holland & Knight LLP


Andrew E. Geer

Enterprise Community Investments


Joseph A. Gregoire

PNC Bank


Maria P. Hibbs, Co-Chair
 

Kathy H. Hannan

KPMG LLP


King Harris 
Harris Holdings Inc. 


Juanita Irizarry 

The Chicago Community Trust


Sokoni Karanja

Centers for New Horizons, Inc.


Peter Levavi

Brinshore Development LLC


Bernard Loyd

Urban Juncture, Inc.


Wyllys Mann

Hispanic Housing Development Corporation  


John G. Markowski

Community Investment Corporation


Robert E. Miller

Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.


Stephen M. Porras, Co-Chair 

Axia Development, Inc.

Sylvia Puente

Latino Policy Forum


Matthew R. Reilen

JPMorgan Chase  


Jesse H. Ruiz

Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP


S. Michael Rummel

Rummel Associates Inc.


Lisa Snow

Davis & Hosfield Consulting LLC


A. Gail Sturm

ProTen Realty Group


Bruce W. Taylor

Taylor Capital Group

John M. Tuhey 

Illinois Tool Works Inc.


Sylvia Van Loveren 

Walgreen Co.


Mary W. Vasys

Vasys Consulting Ltd.


Mijo Vodopic

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation


Mark A. Wegener 

US Bank


Joseph A. Williams

Granite Development Corporation


Sensible Growth Committee

This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with land use, planning, and the environment. The committee is co-chaired by Ellen C. Craig, and Chris Burke, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. 

Projects:

Christopher B. Burke


Karen Atwood

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois

Calvert W. Audrain

Ellen C. Craig


Byron Brazier

Apostolic Church of God

Todd Brown  
 

Christopher B. Burke, Co-Chair
Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.

Todd J. Cabanban
Cabanban, Rubin & Mayberry Commercial Realty

Monica Chadka
IIT College of Architecture


Robert Clough 
Loebl Schlossman and Hackl, Inc. 

Ellen C. Craig, Co-Chair

Kristina Dalman

Pulte Group 


Mark de la Vergne

Sam Schwartz Engineering


Joseph A. Gonzalez

Ghafari Associates


Linda Goodman

Goodman Williams Group


John F. Hartray

Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Ltd. 

Adolfo Hernandez

City of Chicago Office of New Americans 

Lawrence Howe 

The Chicago Community Trust


Thomas C. Kirschbraun

Jones Lang LaSalle


Suzanne Malec-McKenna
Consultant to CCT/The Morton Arboretum 

James E. Mann
 

John M. McDonough

Sidley Austin LLP


Nora Moreno Cargie

The Boeing Company


Peter Mulvaney
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 
 

Heather Parish

Strategies for Community Economic Development and Finance


Arthur Pearson
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation 
 

Donovan W. Pepper

Walgreen Co.

Thomas Price  
Conservation Design Forum
 

Douglas P. Regan

JPMorgan


Jean Rudd

JR Strategies

Sabina Shaikh
University of Chicago 
 

David Siegel

Sidley Austin LLP


Michael Thomas
The Allstate Corporation
 

Michael A. Toolis

VOA Associates, Inc.

Lois Vitt Sale

Wight & Company


William Woodley

The Community Builders, Inc.


Ferhat Zerin

Ginkgo Planning & Design


Regional Planning & Investments Committee

This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with financing, taxes, investments and capital. The committee is co-chaired by Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau, Ph.D., executive vice president, Primera Engineers, Ltd.; and J. Scot Pepper, senior vice president, Pepper Construction Company. 


 

 

 

Projects:

J. Scot Pepper

Tyler Anthony

ComEd


John W. Baird

Baird & Warner, Inc.


Kyle Barnett

BMO Harris Bank


Mark Bookman

Ernst & Young LLP


Carole L. Brown

Barclays Capital 


Ellen Carnahan 

Machrie Enterprises LLC


Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau, Ph.D., Co-Chair

Primera Engineers, Ltd.


Alison L. Chung

TeamWerks


Jon B. DeVries

Roosevelt University


Scott Edwards

Veolia


Anne Edwards-Cotter

Cotter Consulting, Inc.


Nancy Fishman

Grand Victoria Foundation


Bernard J. Ford


Cassandra Francis
KARIATID 
 

James C. Franczek

Franczek Radelet P.C.


John S. Gates

PortaeCo, LLC


Jacques N. Gordon

Jones Lang LaSalle


Mary K. Ludgin

Heitman


Wesley Lujan

Union Pacific 


Peter Malecek

Bank of America


Thomas H. Morsch

Public Financial Management Group


Stephen Newell

IBM Corporation 


Paul E. Nowicki

BNSF Railway Company


Robert T. O’Brien

Deloitte & Touche LLP


Michael A. Pagano

University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA 


J. Scot Pepper, Co-Chair

Pepper Construction Company  


Paula Pienton

TY Lin International 


George A. Ranney

Metropolis Strategies


Robert G. Reiter

Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO


Chris Robling

Jayne Thompson & Associates, Ltd


Maria N. Saldaña
The Resurrection Project 
 

Stephen E. Schlickman

University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs


Paul W. Shadle

DLA Piper


Smita Shah

SPAAN Tech, Inc.


Michael Smyth

Illinois American Water


Martin Stern

U.S. Equities Realty, LLC


James P. Stirling

UBS Investment Bank 


Paula Wolff

Metropolis Strategies


Paula Worthington

University of Chicago


Government Relations

This committee focuses on advancing MPC's government affairs capabilities and improving our effectiveness in the legislative and executive arenas. The committee is co-chaired by Robert V. Fitzsimmons, Partner, K&L Gates LLP; and Kevin C. Richardson, President, Heartland Solutions Group.

Robert V. Fitzsimmons

Kevin C. Richardson

Rita R. Athas

World Business Chicago


Christopher B. Burke, Ph.D.

Christopher B. Burke Engineering, LLC


Robert V. Fitzsimmons, Co-Chair 

K&L Gates LLP


James C. Franczek, Jr.

Franczek Radelet P.C.


John S. Gates

PortaeCo, LLC


James E. Mann
 

Paul E. Nowicki

BNSF Railway Company


Kevin C. Richardson, Co-Chair 

Heartland Solutions Group


Jesse H. Ruiz

Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

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