| Robert Abt | | CEO, ABT Family Foundation |
| Jonathan Alter | | Senior Editor and Columnist, Newsweek |
| Michael Alter | | President, The Alter Group |
| Jo Ann Anixter Silva | | L & R Anixter Foundation |
| Robert Appelbaum | | Penguin Frozen Foods |
| Emily Barr | | President & General Manager, WLS-TV ABC-7 |
| Howard B. Bernick | | Alberto-Culver Company
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| Henry Betts, M.D. | | Past Medical Director, President & CEO, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
| Joseph Biden | | U. S. Vice President |
| Henry Bienen | | President, Northwestern University |
| Norman R. Bobins | | Chairman, PrivateBancorp, Inc. |
| William J. Brodsky | | Chairman & CEO, Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc. |
| Edward M. Burke | | Alderman, Chicago 14th Ward |
| Justice Anne M. Burke | | Illinois Supreme Court Justice |
| Mary Ann Childers | | Communication Consultant, Res Publica Group |
| Elizabeth Coulson | | Illinois State Representative, District 17 |
| Mario Cuomo | | Willkie Farr & Gallagher |
| Richard M. Daley | | Mayor, City of Chicago |
| Sherman Elias | | Chair, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
| George Feldenkreis | | CEO, Perry Ellis International |
| Steven Fradkin | | Executive Vice President and CEO, Northern Trust Corp. |
| Charles Frank | | President, Z Frank Chevrolet |
| Elaine Frank | | Mrs. Zollie S. Frank Fund |
| Howard Friend | | President, On-Cor Foods |
| Susan Garrett | | Illinois State Senator, District 29 |
| Joel Gemunder | | CEO, Omnicare, Inc. |
| Francis Cardinal George | | Archbishop of Chicago |
| Phillip Goldstick | | Chairman, G Equity Investment Group |
| Sheldon Good | | Chairman Emeritus, Sheldon Good & Company |
| Alvin Gorman | | Chairman, Power Construction |
| Charles Grodin | | Actor, Writer, Author and Director, CBS News |
| Julie Hamos | | Illinois State Representative, District 18 |
| Carrie Hightman | | President, SBC Illinois |
| Melvin L. Katten | | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP |
| Jordon Katz | | JR Katz Inc. |
| John F. Kerry | | U. S. Senator, Massachusetts |
| Mark Kirk | | U. S. Congressman, Illinois, 10th District |
| Henry A. Kissinger | | Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc. |
| Margie Korshak | | President, Margie Korshak, Inc. |
| Jonathan Kovler | | President, Blum-Kovler Foundation |
| Lou Lang | | Illinois State Representative, District 16 |
| Bennett Leventhal | | University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Institute for Juvenile Research |
| Jay Levine | | Chief Correspondent, CBS 2 Chicago |
| Joseph Lieberman | | U. S. Senator, Connecticut |
| Michael Lynton | | CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| John Madigan | | Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Tribune Company |
| Lisa Madigan | | Illinois Attorney General |
| Michael J. Madigan | | Illinois House Representative, District 22 |
| Patrick Magoon | | President & CEO, Children's Memorial Hospital |
| Ralph Mandell | | Chairman, PrivateBancorp, Inc. |
| Dr. Sylvia Manning | | Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Carol Marin | | Political Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, Political Editor, NBC 5 News |
| Sidney H. Mathias | | Illinois State Representative, District 53 |
| Karen May | | Illinois State Representative, District 58 |
| Leo Melamed | | Melamed & Associates |
| James Mills | | Chairman, Medline |
| Newton N. Minow | | Sidley Austin Brown & Wood |
| Alan B. Muchin | | Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman |
| Elaine Nekritz | | Illinois State Representative, District 57 |
| J. B. Pritzker | | Managing Partner, The Pritzker Group |
| Pat Quinn | | Governor, State of Illinois |
| Jerry M. Reinsdorf | | Chairman, Chicago White Sox Charities |
| Mark Sachs | | President, Lind Waldock |
| Jan Schakowsky | | Illinois State Representative, 9th Congressional District |
| Steve Schanwald | | Vice President, Chicago Bulls |
| Jeffrey M. Schoenberg | | Illinois State Senator, 9th District |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver | | Executive Vice President, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation |
| Stephen Schwartz | | Chairman & CEO, First Hospitality Group, Inc. |
| Ira I. Silverstein | | Illinois State Senator, 8th District |
| Samuel K. Skinner | | Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Former White House Chief of Staff for President George H. W. Bush |
| Larry Spatz | | CEO, Diversified Capital Management, Ltd. |
| Adlai E. Stevenson III | | Chairman, SC&M Investment Management Corp. |
| James C. Tyree | | President, Mesirow Financial |
| Larry Wert | | President & General Manager, NBC 5 Chicago, WMAQ-TV |
| Michael Wujcik | | Wujcik Construction Group |
| Bruce Young | | President, Institutional Sales and Trading, Mesirow Financial |
| Sherwin Zuckerman | | Retired Partner, Harris Associates, LP |