BOARD
"We can get serious. We will listen to you. We can think big.”
Jim Edgar, Co-Chair
Former Governor of Illinois
William M. Daley, Co-Chair
Chairman of the Midwest Region, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Ellen Alberding
President, The Joyce Foundation
James Bell
President & CFO, The Boeing Company
Lew Collens
Professor of Law and President Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology
Miguel del Valle
City Clerk of Chicago
Former Chair of Illinois Senate Education Committee
John Edwardson
Chairman, President & CEO, CDW Corporation
Joseph Fatheree
Illinois Teacher of the Year 2006-2007, Effingham High School
James C. Franczek, Jr.
President, Franczek Radelet P.C.
J. Dennis Hastert
Former Speaker, United States House of Representatives
Former Illinois State Representative
Dr. Timothy Knowles
Lewis-Sebring Director, The Urban Education Institute, University of Chicago
Sylvia Puente
Director, Center for Metropolitan Chicago Initiatives, University of Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
Chairman and CEO, State Farm Insurance Co.
Patricia Watkins
Executive Director, TARGET Area Development Corporation | 
