2020 Annual Report

Improving citywide planning through Chicago’s first comprehensive plan since 1966

Citywide plans allow us to envision the future, collectively. The first step? Building a collective. That’s why MPC, in partnership with multiple City departments, convened people in autumn 2020 to explore how Mayor Lightfoot’s three-year citywide planning process, “We Will Chicago,” can best include the voices of all residents, incorporate critical lessons from other cities, and overcome our region’s past planning challenges.

Exploring Illinois’ water challenges through the lens of equity

COVID-19 has shown us how important water is to our well-being—but it’s also highlighted that clean, affordable, accessible water is not a given for many. To change that, MPC has worked with communities, nonprofit partners, and decision-makers to learn what stands in the way of an equitable water future for Illinois residents. We helped establish an advisory group to the Illinois State Water Plan update, focused on ensuring the plan emphasizes equity and a robust public engagement strategy. We supported the development of a coalition that is creating an Illinois Water Justice Agenda to ensure water affordability, accessibility, and quality. We provided technical assistance to the communities of Hazel Crest and Evanston on lead service lines and water affordability, respectively. And we created a working group focused on designing flooding relief that works for Chicago homeowners from all neighborhoods and income levels.

Changing stereotypes about what makes a “good neighborhood”

“Bad neighborhood.” It’s a term as simplistic as it is damaging. By challenging false narratives around segregated neighborhoods, we can build solidarity and empathy to change perceptions. MPC’s Research Team is bolstering the case for reparations and targeted investments through conversations with residents about their neighborhoods’ assets, as well as about how policymakers can systemically address the harms of structural racism.

Learning from the wisdom of business visionaries

Founding one of America’s largest minority-owned investment firms. Beating Michael Jordan at basketball. These are a couple of the accolades about John Rogers, MPC’s 2020 Champion Fighter Award recipient. John’s vision and expertise extends past his business, Ariel Investments, into boardrooms and C-suites across America. In the keynote at our September 2020 Annual Event, John spoke about our country’s growing racial wealth gap, the impact of George Floyd’s murder, and how a strong economy undergirds change. In case you missed it, Governor J.B. Pritzker joined one of many voices praising John in a surprise celebratory video.

Documenting the lived experiences of people using our region’s transportation system

When it comes to investments in transportation, decisions should be based on more than numbers and data. People’s experiences matter. MPC partnered with Equiticity and the University of Illinois at Chicago on focus groups around the ways in which transportation is a barrier to employment. We also looked at 40 of America’s largest metropolitan regions for models of equity-grounded transportation funding decisions. Blended together, these approaches can ensure that the Chicago region’s transit system benefits those whom we rely on the most.

Building a stormwater credit trading market

In 2020, MPC celebrated a win that was 12 years in the making: an updated ordinance approved by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) that greenlights two Cook County pilot stormwater credit trading programs. Stormwater credit trading is an innovative, market-based approach that enables infrastructure that reduces flooding to be built efficiently where it’s needed most. MPC and The Nature Conservancy are managing these pilots through a partnership known as StormStore. We are unlocking new opportunities for property owners, developers, and communities to work together to reduce costly flooding and unlock economic development in northwest and southeast Cook County.

Moving Toward Racial Equity in Cook County’s Forest Preserves

Green space is healthy for our bodies, minds, and our sense of community. But structural racism has limited access to recreation and to fresh air at our region’s unique network of urban forests. MPC staff pursued racial equity with the Forest Preserves, making changes both internally and in a public-facing plan. Using a racial equity lens to guide land acquisition, staffing, and programming willconnect more residents of Cook County to biodiversity, which can help both people and places thrive.

Fighting for a more accessible region

Whether commuting to a job or anywhere else, accessibility is key to ensuring that our robust transit network helps people get where they need to go. Connecting workers to transit reduces employee turnover costs, according to findings from our partnership with the Boston Consulting Group. And communities across our area are falling short on their commitments to accessibility, according to our analysis in partnership with the Great Lakes ADA center. Shoulder-to-shoulder with experts, allies, and stakeholders, we can move our region Toward Universal Mobility.

Developing a community-driven vision for land in Rogers Park

Bees buzzing. Hoses running. These are the sounds of a community garden near the CTA Howard transit hub. Since Alderwoman Maria Hadden is committed to honoring local opinions on the future of this transit-oriented land parcel, she’s partnering with MPC to deploy the unique, hands-on convening method we’ve used in places from Aurora to Woodlawn to understand community desires regarding development. A wrinkle? The pandemic. This year, we reinvented our Corridor Development Initiative into something new—complete with social-distancing-friendly virtual workshops, virtual polling, live translation, and take-home design kits.

Outlining a path to a healthier Chicago without disparities

In the near-north Streeterville neighborhood, residents can expect to live to 90, while nine miles south, Englewood residents will only live, on average, to 60 years. It’s the largest life expectancy disparity in the U.S., and it’s a problem that Healthy Chicago 2025 aims to solve. MPC helped the Chicago Department of Public Health develop recommendations that address our complex social and institutional barriers to health, from the formation of an environmental equity working group, to using health data in building inspections, to increasing police accountability.

Preserving affordability together in East Garfield Park

It’s a familiar double-edged sword: well-intentioned investments in public amenities can raise property values and displace families. We convened East Garfield Park residents from May 2019 through March 2020 for a public planning process to identify shared affordability goals and strategies—from a strong, independent neighborhood coalition to a Community-Driven Land Trust. We released the resulting Blueprint for Community Action at a resource fair at the Garfield Park Conservatory.

Joining together for inviting, productive, and living rivers

When National Geographic called Chicago’s riverside trails some of the nation’s best “secret urban walks,” they weren’t kidding. This summer, partners from Openlands to the Chicago Community Trust joined the public in helping us celebrate our rivers in a summertime social media campaign, #GreatRiversChicago. It brought to life the plans, projects, and passion that have improved the Chicago, Calumet, and Des Plaines rivers over the past four years since the release of Our Great Rivers, the first-ever unifying and forward-looking vision for all three of Chicago’s rivers.

Committing to the Calumet

Seasons and political administrations change, but long-term, cross-sector engagement is transformative. After more than a decade of partnerships throughout the Calumet region, we’re seeing movement on many fronts. We’re promoting access to green spaces through advising the Illinois Port District on a vision for both a working port and community assets at Lake Calumet, supporting river-oriented projects like connecting Altgeld Gardens’ residents to an urban forest, and developing Conservation Action Plan strategy to improve open space along the Little Calumet River. For more than five years we’ve convened the Calumet Stormwater Collaborative for critical conversations among stakeholders in a shared watershed on how to reduce urban flooding. Just recently Opportunity Advancement Innovation, Inc. partnered with us on helping municipalities jointly maintain green infrastructure and create green jobs. When our call for Drinking Water 1-2-3 technical assistance projects went out, we were excited that the south suburban communities of Hazel Crest, Robbins and Sauk Village all requested help on critical water supply planning needs. The list goes on—Diversity, Equity and Inclusion trainings with the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, affordable housing assessments through Homes for a Changing Region, land use planning with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, and more. Substantial and sustained, our commitment to the Calumet is core to who MPC is and what we do.

Building capacity among communities

The layered crises of 2020 were particularly devastating to our region’s smaller communities. Sales tax revenues dried up just as demands for services increased. MPC and its Transform Illinois partners assist with models of services sharing and consolidation. MPC subject matter experts offered a helping hand on water supply solutions for Joliet and its neighbors and through groups such as the Northwest Water Planning Alliance and the Southwest Water Planning Group.

Mapping a brighter future after COVID-19

The pandemic has raged like a wildfire, laying bare our region’s—and nation’s—structural inequities. But while policies and lack of investments created the tinderbox, COVID-19 was only the match. In a region where Black residents are more than twice as likely to die from coronavirus as their white counterparts, MPC joined the Field Foundation and more than 20 other local institutions and researchers to create an interactive mapping tool whose data reveals truths about the unjust impacts of this cruel illness. And this tool is guiding a deployment of resources to achieve an equitable recovery.

Instilling equity practices internally at MPC

Our commitment to racial equity means nothing if we don’t have difficult internal conversations that lead to change. Members of MPC’s Equity Committee developed a customized framework for implementing Anti Racism Anti Oppression practices within our institution, guided by Board equity advisors and by assistance from Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism (Chicago ROAR).

Battling our region’s lead pipe problem

Chicago has more lead service lines than any other city in America, and lead pipes are a frightening and costly problem in communities across Illinois. Lead exposure can lower children’s IQs, increase attention-related behavior problems, reduce growth and hearing, and create a lifetime of negative health repercussions. Through MPC’s advocacy for a statewide solution to lead service lines, we are working with partners across Illinois to ensure that every municipality has the resources needed to replace every lead service line—the only equitable solution. We’re working with communities to prioritize hard-hit areas and vulnerable populations, such as schools and daycares. And we’re working with policy makers to ensure that Black and Brown communities benefit from the good jobs that lead service line replacement will create.

Raising our voice for community benefit after COVID-19

It’s impossible to overstate how dramatically the pandemic has upended our lives. In the face of upheaval, MPC leaders have worked to protect our region’s residents and institutions, such as folks struggling to make rent as their jobs are swept from beneath their feet. We’ve advocated for changes that protect renters from an “Eviction Cliff.” We’ve also shaped media coverage through advising the monthly Crain’s Chicago Business “Forum” and writing for venues like the Chicago Sun-Times to ensure that Chicagoland’s public transportation network survives a “carpocalypse.” When the going gets tough, it’s more important than ever to fight for the assets that help everyone thrive.

Shining a light on the inequities of remote learning, which inspired a $50M fund to connect students

Did you know that one in five Black or Latinx learners lack home access to broadband in Chicago? In April, we published findings with Kids First Chicago revealing that children of color are less likely to have the internet or the connected devices at home that are necessary for remote learning. In June, Mayor Lori Lightfoot raised $50 million from business and philanthropy leaders for “Chicago Connected,” an effort that provides free, high-speed internet access for four years to Chicago Public Schools learners, possibly the nation’s largest high-speed internet connection effort. A flurry of news stories cited our research, a catalyst for actionable change that will help students in homes across the city.

Building a path forward for equitable transit-oriented development

In 2013, the City of Chicago passed an ordinance designed to promote development near transit, but in practice, these zoning reforms heavily and inequitably benefitted Chicago’s North and Northwest sides. In an effort that spanned two mayoral administrations, 18 months, over 80 voices, and a pandemic, MPC joined Elevated Chicago partners in advocating for more equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD). The result? The City of Chicago’s first-ever ETOD plan, released in September 2020, a step toward addressing our public health, racial justice, and climate change crises through smart development around transit hubs.

The exhaustion of 2020 caused many to ask, “How much worse can things get?” As an independent policy change organization, the Metropolitan Planning Council instead focuses on how much better things can be. Thank you for being there, for supporting our work, for inching us closer to a more equitable, more joyful future.

Financial summary

2020 operating expenses

2020 operating revenue by source

$250,000–$499,999

• The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust
• *The Chicago Community Trust
• *Grand Victoria Foundation
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$100,000–$249,999

• The Crown Family
• Ann M. Drake
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Harris Family Foundation
• *The Joyce Foundation
• JPMorgan Chase
• McCormick Foundation
• McDougal Family Foundation
• PNC Bank
• *Polk Bros. Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

• BMO Harris Bank
• Ellen Carnahan
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Comcast
• Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
• Kenneth C. Griffin
• Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan
• *Steans Family Foundation
• U.S. Bank

$20,000–$49,999

• Abbott
• Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
• Bank of America
• BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois
• Patricia and Laurence Booth
• Bowman C. Lingle Trust
• Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC
• CIBC Bank USA
• Colonel Stanley McNeil Foundation
• ComEd
• Conant Family Foundation
• Kent and Elizabeth Dauten
• The Duchossois Group, Inc.
• Elevate Energy
• First Midwest Bank
• GCM Grosvenor
• Jacques N. Gordon and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire
• Groupon
• Lavin Family Foundation
• Lendlease Development Inc.
• Holly and John Madigan
• Mansueto Foundation
• McDonald’s Corporation
• Andrew J. McKenna, Sr.
• Steven N. Miller
• Lee M. Mitchell
• Northern Trust
• Peoples Gas
• The Prince Charitable Trusts
• The Pritzker Traubert Foundation
• Reyes Holdings, LLC
• The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
• The Vistria Group
• Union Pacific Corporation
• William Blair & Company, LLC
• Wintrust Financial Corporation
• Yagan Family Foundation

$10,000–$19,999

• AbbVie Inc.
• Alliance for the Great Lakes
• The Allstate Corporation
• AptarGroup, Inc.
• Association of American Railroads
• The Banc Funds Company
• The Canning Foundation
• CenterPoint Properties Trust
• Centro
• Charles River Associates
• Chicago Federation of Labor
• Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Cleveland-Cliffs ArcelorMittal
• Michelle L. Collins
• E. David Coolidge, III
• Dr. Scholl Foundation
• J. Michael Drew
• The Edgewater Funds
• Edwardson Family Foudation
• Enterprise Community Partners
• John R. Ettelson
• Franczek P.C.
• Linda and Wilbur Gantz
• Nancy S. Gerrie
• Illinois Tool Works Inc.
• InterPark Holdings LLC
• The John Buck Company
• Jones Lang LaSalle
• Karen P. Layng
• Lazard
• Jim and Kitty Mann
• Mansueto Office Inc
• The Nature Conservancy
• Northwestern Medicine
• Joan Rockey
• Roland Berger Consultant
• John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe
• San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)
• Katherine M. Scherer
• Sam and Dona Scott Fund
• Sterling Bay Companies
• Structured Development, LLC
• Don and Liz Thompson
• University of Chicago

$5,000–$9,999

• Nicholas W. Alexos
• Michael J. Alter
• Ariel Investments, LLC
• Baird & Warner, Inc.
• CDW
• Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters
• Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• Chris and Cira Conley
• d’Escoto, Inc.
• DLA Piper LLP (US)
• Edelman
• Joan and Robert Feitler
• Bon and Holly French
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• John S. Gates, Jr.
• Hill and Cheryl Hammock
• Heitman
• James & Catherine Denny Foundation
• Carol and Larry Levy
• John and Judy McCarter
• National Equity Fund, Inc.
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Pepper Construction Company
• Perkins & Will
• R.M. Chin & Associates, Inc.
• Emma Rodriguez-Ayala and Eric Chitwood
• John W. Rogers, Jr.
• Julia M. Stasch
• Ellen and Jim Stirling
• Bruce W. Taylor
• Ventas, Inc.
• Vitale Family Foundation
• Melissa Y. Washington
• Wight & Company
• Wayne Whalen and Paula Wolff

$1,000–$4,999

• Anonymous
• Ben and Sheila Applegate
• Kyle Barnett
• MarySue Barrett
• Francis and Prudence Beidler
• Virginia Breen
• Matthew Brewer
• Todd C. Brown
• Christopher B. Burke
• Suzanne Burns
• Paul and Rebecca Carlisle
• Chicago Cubs
• CSX Transportation Inc.
• Francesca DeBiase
• Deloitte
• Divvy/Lyft Transit, Bikes and Scooters
• Paul Dykstra
• Enterprise Community Investments
• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
• Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser
• Linda Goodman and David Narefsky
• The Habitat Company
• Andrew J. Hesselbach
• David D. Hiller
• Jocarno Fund
• Lawrence Kearns
• Christopher J. King
• Tom Kirschbraun
• Janet A. Lang
• Martha Linsley
• Make It Better Media Group
• Erica Marquez Avitia
• David Mook
• Emily Nicklin
• Optima Inc.
• Sameer Patel
• Patricia J. Hurley & Associates, Inc.
• Matthew R. Reilein
• The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
• Alana Ward Robinson
• Carol Ross Barney
• Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
• Reed Singer
• Unmi Song
• Barbara L. Stewart
• Michael A. Thomas
• Ulta Beauty
• Mary White Vasys
• Pam and Doug Walter

$500–$999

• Mark A. Angelini
• John G. Crowley
• Barbara Flynn Currie
• Grisko LLC
• Stacy Janiak
• Bernard Loyd
• Mary K. Ludgin
• Suzanne Malec-McKenna
• Clark Maxfield
• Robert E. Miller
• Juliana Posada, LiftUp Enterprise
• Janice E. Rodgers
• Jeff E. Smith
• Darwin G. Stuart
• Valerie S. Kretchmer Associates, Inc.
• Walder Foundation
• Adrienne E. White-Faines

$150–$499

• John A. Andersen, Jr.
• Anonymous
• Kate Bensen
• Joel Bookman
• Thomas Burke
• K.K. Neilsen Cleland
• Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman
• Ellen C. Craig
• Kristi DeLaurentiis
• Renita L. Dixon
• Farr Associates
• Jean Franczyk
• Donald Haider
• Errol and Libby Halperin
• Douglas Hurdelbrink
• Robert A. Hutchins
• John Jendras
• Amy Turnbull Khare
• William J. Kirby
• Leadership Greater Chicago
• John and Jill Levi
• Wyllys Mann
• David May
• Susan J. Moran and John M. McDonough
• Clare M. Muñana
• Maura O’Hara
• Jonathan Perman
• Paula C. Pienton
• John and Stacy Sassaris
• Adele S. Simmons
• Jeffrey Sriver
• Benjamin Swartzendruber
• Amber Webb

*Signifies donors to Economic Security for IL, the organization for which MPC serves as Fiscal Sponsor.

Leadership

2020 Board of Governors

Executive Committee Officers

• Chair
  Ellen Carnahan
  Principal
  Machrie Enterprises LLC
• Vice Chair
  Ann M. Drake
  President & Founder, Lincoln Road
  Chair & Founder, AWESOME
• Vice Chair Development
  James P. Stirling
  Senior Advisor
  UBS
• Vice Chair Development/Secretary
  Paul C. Carlisle
  Chief Operating Officer
  Market Head-Commercial Banking
  Wintrust Commercial Banking
• Vice Chair Government Relations
  Robert V. Fitzsimmons, II
  Managing Director and Principal
  Next Generation Public Affairs, Inc.
• Treasurer
  Bruce W. Taylor
  Managing Partner
  Taylor Investment Partners
• Immediate Past Chair
  Todd C. Brown
• President
  MarySue Barrett
  President
  Metropolitan Planning Counci

2020 Board of Governors

* denotes Executive Committee Members

** denotes resigned in 2020

• *Ramiro J. Atristaín-Carrión
  Managing Director
  Atristain Financial Advisors, LLC
• Kyle Barnett
  Head, North American Physical Channels & US Channels
  BMO Financial Group
• Carol Ross Barney
  Founder & President
  Ross Barney Architects, Inc.
• *Matthew Brewer
  Partner
  Bartlit Beck LLP
• Carole L. Brown
  EVP/Head Asset Management Group
  PNC Bank
• Christopher B. Burke
  President
  Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• **John H. Catlin
  Partner
  LCM Architects
• **Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau
  President
  Pececa, Ltd.
  Eileen Chin
  President
  R.M. Chin & Associates, Inc.
• Chris Conley
  Founder
  Two Bit Ventures, LLC
• Lester Crown
  Chairman
  Henry Crown & Company
• Francesca DeBiase
  Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
  McDonald’s Corporation
• Zena Diggs
  Senior Vice President
  Bank of America
• James C. Franczek, Jr.
  President
  Franczek P.C.
• Linda Goodman
  Principal
  Goodman Williams Group
• *Jacques N. Gordon
  Global Investment Strategist
  LaSalle Investment Management
• M. Hill Hammock
  Chairman
  Cook County Health & Hospital System
• Andrew J. Hesselbach
  Senior Vice President Illinois Operations
  WEC Energy Group
• Laurie A. Holmes
  Partner
  Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLC
• Charles R. Kaiser
  General Manager, Corporate Affairs
  Edelman
• **Christopher J. King
  President
  Robinson Engineering Ltd.
• Martha Linsley
• Laritza Lopez
  President
  Purple Group
• Bernard Loyd
  President
  Urban Juncture, Inc.
• Mary K. Ludgin
  Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Research
  Heitman LLC
• James E. Mann
• Erica Marquez Avitia
  Chief Operating Officer
  Old Mission Capital LLC
• Lee M. Mitchell
  Managing Partner
  Thoma Bravo, Inc.
• **Matthew Moog
  Interim CEO
  Chicago Public Media
• David Mook
  Chief Private Banking Officer
  U.S. Bank, Wealth Management Group
• **Juan Gabriel Moreno
  President
  JGMA, Ltd.
• Sameer Patel
  Partner
  Holland & Knight LLP
• J. Scot Pepper
  President
  Pepper Construction Company
• Julian G. Posada
  President
  LiftUp Enterprises
• George A. Ranney, Jr.
• *Matthew R. Reilein
  President & CEO
  National Equity Fund, Inc.
• Robert G. Reiter, Jr.
  President
  Chicago Federation of Labor
• **Shawn Riegsecker
  Founder & CEO
  Centro
• Alana Ward Robinson
  President & CEO
  Robinson Group Consulting Inc.
• Emma L. Rodriguez-Ayala
  General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
  Legal & General Investment Management America
• Unmi Song
  President
  Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• **Tyronne Stoudemire
  Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion
  Hyatt Hotel Corporation
• Michael A. Thomas
  Vice President, Administration & Real Estate
  The Allstate Corporation
• Mary White Vasys
  President
  Vasys Consulting Ltd.
• *Melissa Y. Washington
  Vice President External Affairs & Large Customer Solutions
  ComEd
• *Paula Wolff
  Director
  Illinois Justice Project
• *Jessica Droste Yagan
  Managing Partner
  Impact Engine

2020 Honorary Board

• Laurence O. Booth 
  Design Principal 
  Booth Hansen Associates
• Joseph A. Gregoire
  Senior Vice President
  Wintrust Financial Corporation
• Donald Haider
  Professor of Public Management
  Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
• John McDonough
  Partner (Retired)
  Sidley Austin LLP
• Priscilla A. (Pam) Walter
  Walter Law Offices

2020 Executive Advisors

• Nicholas Alexos
  EVP & Chief Financial Officer
  Univar Solutions
• Wilfried Aulbur
  Senior Partner, Member of the Advisory Board
  Roland Berger
• Carol Bernick
  Chief Executive Officer
  Polished Nickel Capital Management LLC
• John L. Bucksbaum
  Chief Executive Officer
  Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC
• David R. Casper
  U.S. CEO
  BMO Financial Group
• Robert M. Chapman
  Chief Executive Officer
  CenterPoint Properties Trust
• Keating Crown
  Managing Principal
  Sterling Bay
• Marsha Cruzan
  Regional President
  U.S. Bank
• J. Michael Drew
  Founding Principal
  Structured Development, LLC
• Craig J. Duchossois
  Chairman & CEO
  The Duchossois Group, Inc.
• John Ettelson
  President & CEO
  William Blair & Company
• Robert W. Frentzel
  Managing Director & Co-Head of Commercial Banking
  CIBC U.S.
• John S. Gates, Jr.
  Executive Chairman
  TradeLane Properties, LLC
• Nancy S. Gerrie
  Partner
  Winston & Strawn LLP
• Ari Glass
  Head of Real Estate
  Mansueto Office Inc.
• Michael L. Keiser
  Owner
  Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
• Mark Kowlzan
  Chairman & CEO
  Packaging Corporation of America
• Karen Layng
  Founder & President
  M.A.I.T. Co.
• Steven N. Miller
  Partner & Co-Founder
  Origin Ventures
• Charles J. Moore
  President
  The Banc Funds
• J. Marshall Peck
  President
  InterPark Holdings LLC
• Shawn Riegsecker
  Founder & CEO
  Centro
• Joan Rockey
  Chief Financial Officer
  The Mather Group
• Katherine M. Scherer
  Managing Partner
  Deloitte LLP
• Michael Scudder
  Chairman, President & CEO
  First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
• Mark Skender
  Chief Executive Officer
  Skender
• Kristofer Swanson
  VP and Practice Leader, Forensic Services
  Charles River Associates
• Scott Swanson
  President
  PNC Bank, Illinois
• Stephan B. Tanda
  President & CEO
  AptarGroup, Inc.
• James P. TenBroek
  Managing Partner
  Growth Catalyst Partners
• Edward J. Wehmer
  Founder, President & CEO
  Wintrust Financial Corporation
• Theodore Weldon, III
  Executive General Manager – Development
  Lendlease

2020 Housing and Community Development Committee

• Pamela Daniels-Halis, co-chair
  BMO Harris Bank
• Amy Khare, co-chair
  National Initative on Mixed Income Communities
• Bennett Applegate
  Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen
• Forest Bailey
  Draper & Kramer
• David Baker
  America’s Urban Campus
• Betsy Benito
  Higher Ground Partners
• Mathew Brewer
  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP.
• Chester Bell
  U.S Bank
• Lee Brown
  Teska Associates, Inc.
• Todd C. Brown 
• Andre Brumfield
  Gensler
• Lissette Castañeda
  LUCHA
• Andrew Geer
  Enterprise Community Partners
• Linda Goodman
  Goodman Williams Group
• Veronica Gonzalez
  NHP Foundation
• King Harris
  Harris Holdings Inc.
• Peter Levavi
  Brinshore Development LLC
• Laritza Lopez
  The Purple Group
• Fanny Lopez Benitez
  Latino Policy Forum
• Bernard Loyd
  Urban Juncture, Inc.
• Wyllys Mann
  Baird & Warner, Inc.
• Robert Miller
  Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.
• Bob Palmer
  Housing Action IL
• Sameer Patel
  Holland & Knight LLP
• Matthew Reilein
  National Equity Fund
• Emma Rodriguez Ayala
  Legal & General Investment Management America
• Bruce Taylor
  Taylor Investment Partners
• Mary Vasys
  Vasys Consulting Ltd.
• Stacie Young
  The Preservation Compact
• Juanita Irizarry
  Friends of the Park
• Pete Saunders
  Village of Richton Park
• Terri Worman
  AARP

2020 Effective Government Committee

• Hill Hammock, co-chair
  Cook County Health Board
• Alana Robinson co-chair
  Robinson Group Consulting, Inc.
• Bill Balling
  WRB LLC
• Christina Burns
  Village of Oswego
• Eileen Chin
  R.M. Chin & Associates, Inc.
• Chris Conley
  Two Bit Ventures, LLC
• Mayor Rodney Craig
  Village of Hanover Park
• Bob Dean
  Center for Neighborhood Technology
• Robert V. Fitzsimmons, II
  Next Generation Public Affairs, Inc.
• Mark Fowler
  Northwest Municipal Conference
• Lindsay Hollander
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Bo Kemp
  Southland Development Authority
• Martha Linsley
• Joseph Mancino
  Greensigns LLC
• Sabina Shaikh
  University of Chicago
• Michael Pagano
  University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
• Heather Parish
  Pierce Family Foundation
• Mayor Sergio Rodriguez
  Village of Summit
• David Silverman
  Ancel Glink
• Regan Stockstell
  Village of Richton Park
• Paula Wolff
  Illinois Justice Project

2020 Land Use and Planning Committee

• Paul Carlisle, Co-Chair
  Wintrust Commercial Banking
• Alejandra Garza, Co-Chair
  AGG Consulting
• Paola Aguirre
  Borderless Studio
• Jaime Arteaga
  Local Initiatives Support Corporation
•  Adam Ballard
  AARP
• Philip Beckham
  P3 Markets
• Ellen Craig
• Fernando DeMiao
  DePaul University
• Zena Diggs
  Bank of America
• Ghian Foreman
  Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
• Meleah Geerstma
  Natural Resources Defense Council
• Linda Goodman
  Goodman Williams Group
• Shubhra Govind
  Village of Hanover Park
• Juanita Irizarry
  Friends of the Parks
• Rebecca Judd
  Donnelley Foundation
• Thomas C. Kirschbraun
  Jones Lang LaSalle
• Kindy Kruller
  Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
• Sarah Langeliers
  GHD
• Mary Ludgin
  Heitman
• James Mann
• Erica Marquez Avitia
  Old Mission Capital LLC
• Zorica Nedovic-Budic
  UIC, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
• Scot Pepper
  Pepper Construction
• Julian Posada
  LiftUp Enterprises
• Anjulie Rao
  American Institute of Architects
• Rob Reuland
  Site Design
• Emma Rodriguez-Ayala
  Legal & General Investment Management America
• Carol Ross Barney
  Ross Barney Architects
• Traci Sanders
  Illinois Housing Development Authority
• Elizabeth Scott
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Dawveed Scully
  SOM
• Anton Seals
  Grow Greater Englewood
• Paul Shadle
  DLA Piper
• Raj Shah
  Rush University
• David Siegel
  Sidley Austin LLP
• Unmi Song
  The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• Will Tippens
  Related Midwest
• Michael Toolis
• Steven Vance
  Map Strategies
• Pam Walter
  Walter Law Offices
• Kimberly Wasserman Nieto
  Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

2020 Transportation Committee

• Tom Kotarac, co-chair
  Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago
• Paula Worthington, co-chair
  University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
• William Abolt
  AECOM
• Felip Ballesteros
  Purple Group
• Kyle Barnett
  BMO Harris Bank
• Dionne Baux
  National Main Street Center, Inc.
• Pedro Cevallos-Candau
• Kristi DeLaurentiis
  South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
• Cindy Fish
  Fish Transportation Group
• Jackie Forbes
  Kane County Division of Transportation
• James Franczek
  Franczek Radelet P.C.
• Jacques Gordon
  LaSalle Investment Management
• Jessica Hector-Hsu
  Regional Transportation Authority
• Sidney Kenyon
  DuPage County Division of Transportation
• Martha Linsley
• Lynda Lopez
  Active Transportation Alliance
•  Kate Lowe
  University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
• Neil McMonagle
  Ernst & Young LLP
• David Mook
  US Bank
• Thomas H. Morsch
  Morsch Expeditions
• J. Scot Pepper
  Pepper Construction Company 
• Paula Pienton
  T.Y. Lin International, Inc.
• Oboi Reed
  Equiticity
• Robert G. Reiter
  Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• Carol Ross Barney
  Ross Barney Architects
• James P. Stirling
  UBS
• Emily Tapia-Lopez
  HNTB Corporation
• Erik Varela
  Union Pacific Railroad
• Mae C. Whiteside
  CKL Engineers
• Laura Wilkison
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Jon Zabrocki
  Robinson Engineering

2020 Water Resources Committee

• Suzanne Malec-McKenna, co-chair
• Manju Sharma, co-chair
  SPAAN Tech
• Amrou Atassi
  CDM Smith
• Nora Beck
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Christopher B. Burke
  Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• Ellen Carnahan
  Machrie Enterprises LLC
• Anna-Lisa Castle
  Alliance of the Great Lakes
• Carolyn Grieves
  Baxter & Woodman
• Alaina Harkness
  Current
• Andy Hesselbach
  WEC Energy Group
• Jyotsna Jagai
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chuck Kaiser
  Edelman
• Genese Leach
  Grand Victoria Foundation
• Edith Makra
  Metropolitan Mayors Caucus
• James E. Mann
  
• Andy Martin
  Greeley and Hansen
• Paul May
  Northwest Suburban Municipal JAWA
• Peter Mulvaney
  Jacobs
• Cristina Negri
  Argonne National Laboratory
• Jeremy Orr
  Natural Resources Defense Council
• Margaret Schneemann
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Sabina Shaikh
  University of Chicago
• Mike Thomas
  Allstate