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Committees

Housing & Community Development Committee

This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with housing affordability and equitable, balanced development. The committee is co-chaired by King Harris, chairman, Harris Holdings Inc., and Yasmin Bates-Brown, executive vice president, Harris Bank.

Projects

Committee Members

Forrest D. Bailey, Draper and Kramer

David E. Baker, Illinois Institute of Technology

Yasmin T. Bates-Brown, Harris Bank

Marca Bristo, ACCESS Living of Metropolitan Chicago

Lee Brown, Teska Associates, Inc.

Karen S. Butler, Jones Lang LaSalle

Paul C. Carlisle 

Thomas J. Connolly, Walgreen Co.

Pamela Daniels-Halisi, The PrivateBank

Paul B. Fischer 

Peter Friedman, Holland & Knight LLP

Joseph A. Gregoire, National City Bank,      now a part of PNC

King Harris, Harris Holdings Inc.

Maria P. Hibbs, The Partnership for New Communities

Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, KPMG LLP

Robert A. Hutchins 

Juanita Irizarry, The Chicago Community   Trust

Sokoni Karanja, Centers for New Horizons,   Inc.

John V. LaMotte, The Lakota Group

Diane Legge Kemp, DLK Civic Design

Peter Levavi, Brinshore Development LLC

Bernard Loyd, Urban Juncture, Inc.

John G. Markowski, Community Investment Corporation

Robert E. Miller, Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.

Lee M. Mitchell, Thoma Bravo, Inc.

Sherri Moses, Grand Victoria Foundation

Stephen M. Porras, Axia Development, Inc.

Sylvia Puente, Latino Policy Forum

Allen A. Rodriguez, Charter One Bank

Jesse H. Ruiz, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

S. Michael Rummel, Rummell Associates Inc.

Lisa Snow, Davis & Hosfield Consulting LLC

Bruce W. Taylor, Taylor Capital Group

Mindy W. Turbov, Turbov Associates

Mary W. Vasys, Vasys Consulting Ltd.

Spruiell White, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Joseph A. Williams, Granite Development Corporation

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 Maria Saldana, senior vice president, Duncan-Williams Inc., and Paul Nowicki, assistant vice president, government and policy, BNSF Railway Company.

Projects

Committee Members

John W. Baird, Baird & Warner, Inc.

Alison L. Chung, TeamWerks

Daniel Dean, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Jon B. DeVries, URS Corporation

Kelly King Dibble, Northern Trust

Omar A. Duque, Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Edward Filer, Clark Hill PLC

Nancy Fishman, Grand Victoria Foundation

James C. Franczek, Franczek Radelet P.C.

Dennis J. Gannon, Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

Robert E. Gleeson, Northern Illinois University

Jacques N. Gordon, Jones Lang LaSalle

Libby G. Halperin 

Julie E. Hamos, Illinois House of Representatives

David Hiller, McCormick Foundation

Steven J. Hovany, Strategy Planning Associates

Dirk Lohan, Lohan Anderson, LLC

Mary K. Ludgin, Heitman

Daniel J. Lynch, United Airlines

Sari L. Macrie, The Allstate Corporation

Peter Malecek, Bank of America

Timothy W. Martin
 
Michael Moore, Barclays Capital

Patrick Moran, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

Leigh Morris, Indiana Department of Transportation

Thomas H. Morsch, Scott Balice Strategies

Paul Newman, Motorola, Inc.

Theodore J. Novak, DLA Piper

Paul E. Nowicki, BNSF Railway Company

Thomas J. O'Bryant, Bank of America

Michael A. Pagano, University of Illinois at   Chicago, CUPPA

Michael W. Payette, Union Pacific Corporation

Jerry K. Pearlman
 
J. Scot Peppe, Pepper Construction Company

Jorge Ramirez, Chicago Federation of Labor,     AFL-CIO

George A. Ranney, Chicago Metropolis 2020

Maria N. Saldaña, Duncan - Williams, Inc.

Michael J. Scholefield, Baxter & Woodman, Inc.

Joanne V. Schroeder, Vlecides-Schroeder Associates, Inc.

Phoebe S. Selden, Scott Balice Strategies

Jeff E. Smith, Ernst & Young LLP

Jonathan Stein, The Inland Real Estate Group,    Inc.

Martin Stern, U.S. Equities Realty, LLC

James P. Stirling, UBS

Gilbert Villegas, Hispanic American       Construction Industry Association

Paula Wolff, Chicago Metropolis 2020

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 Mark Angelini, practice leader, S.B. Friedman & Company, and Todd Brown, vice chairman, ShoreBank.

Projects

 

Committee Members

Mark A. Angelini, S. B. Friedman & Company

Calvert W. Audrain        

James J. Blanusha, Collins Engineers, Inc.

Todd C. Brown

Christopher B. Burke, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.

Robert K. Clough, Loebl Schlossman and Hackl, Inc.

Vincent Cordero, Univision Television Group

Ellen C. Craig   

Kristina Dalman, Daspin & Aument LLP

Bernard J. Ford ,McDonough Associates, Inc.

Scott Goldstein, Teska Associates, Inc.

Joseph A. Gonzalez ,DeStefano + Partners, Ltd.

Linda Goodman, Goodman Williams Group

Donald Haider, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

John F. Hartray, Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Ltd.

Cheri Heramb, AECOM Consult, Inc.

Elizabeth I. Holland, Abbell Associates

Lawrence Howe, The Chicago Community Trust

Jerry S. James, Edward R. James Partners, LLC

Thomas C. Kirschbraun, Jones Lang LaSalle

Douglas T. Lambert, BT Conferencing - Midwest Region

John N. LaPlante, T.Y. Lin International, Inc.

James E. Mann, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation

John M. McDonough, Sidley Austin LLP

Nora Moreno Cargie, The Boeing Company

Karla Olson Teasley, Illinois American Water

Donovan W. Pepper, Walgreen Co.

Anne R. Pramaggiore, ComEd

Jean Rudd, JR Strategies

Smita Shah, SPAAN Tech, Inc.

Unmi Song, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

A. Gail Sturm, ProTen Realty Group

Michael A. Toolis, VOA Associates, Inc.

Ferhat Zerin, Ginkgo Planning & Design