2016 Annual Report

Better together

How MPC partners to create a more equitable, prosperous and sustainable region.

“Exposures to people with different experiences make you more compassionate. You learn to care about your neighbors. Being neighborly makes you human,” Bertuflo says, adding that she also knows that living in Oak Park is far from a perfect solution. “You don’t remain untouched by segregation living in an integrated community.”

In March 2017, MPC released The Cost of Segregation, a groundbreaking study that demonstrates in stark terms that segregation touches everybody in the Chicago region, no matter where they live. The report found that Chicago area residents would earn an additional $4.4 billion in income every year if we reduced the level of segregation between African Americans and whites to the national median. Reaching that median also would have prevented 229 homicides last year, and 83,000 more people would have earned a bachelor’s degree.

Created in partnership with the Urban Institute, the study analyzed segregation patterns in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. The Chicago region had the 5th highest combined racial and economic segregation, the 9th highest Latino-white segregation and the 10th highest African American-white segregation.

The hard numbers of the The Cost of Segregation have already begun shifting the narrative on segregation in Chicago and beyond, with more than 300 media outlets covering the report, from the Chicago Tribune to the Economist, from WBEZ to CNN. Cardinal Blase Cupich cited the study at an anti-violence march in Englewood, and MPC discussed its findings at a press conference where seven Northwest Side Chicago aldermen vowed to add affordable housing to their wards. MPC vice president and lead author Marisa Novara has presented on the study at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard and will be a keynote speaker in Detroit and Brussels for the German Marshall Fund Vibrant Cities Forum.

“Our idea from the beginning was that a moral lens has proven insufficient to move policy in our region,” Novara says. “With rigorous research that clearly outlines the cost to all of us—including but not only low-income families or people of color—we are  starting a broader new conversation.”

To help guide the authors through the process, MPC assembled an advisory team of nearly 30 local experts from community-based organizations, issue-based advocates, funders, and others with experience across the Chicago region. They shaped the final report over more than a year, exploring ideas with MPC and Urban staff. They asked probing questions like, “Aren’t ethnic enclaves worthy places to call home?” “With a focus on the problems of segregation, are you suggesting that integration will solve everything?”

“The findings are so strong and shocking in terms of the human and economic potential that is limited by segregation in our region. Taking on segregation is a route to address a whole set of inter-related issues—getting to the root causes of violence, of health and wellness issues, of economic distress, and more.”

—Ianna Kachoris, senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which supported the research

“MPC is at the forefront of studying the issues facing our region, and they pulled together the best policy minds,” says Juan Carlos Linares, the executive director of the Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA) and an advisor to the study. “We had experts in statistics and the demographics, and also those who could discuss observable phenomenon going on that should be addressed.”

The Cost of Segregation opens discussions about investments and policies on issues like transit, housing and economic development, and can serve as a catalyst for exploring largely hidden impacts of segregation, too. For instance, informal but real racial boundaries between neighborhoods and municipalities can be an impediment to consolidation of schools, park districts or other government bodies, standing in the way of opportunities to improve government efficiency.

“Segregation accelerates and perpetuates injustice. It makes it much easier and more efficient to discriminate against groups of people,” Novara says. “It’s not so simple as to say that solving segregation would solve inequities in our region, but the first step to a better future is a clear understanding of where we are today and how we got here.”

Next up is a companion study dedicated to MPC’s second overarching question: Given its negative impact on issues of equity, what can we do to mitigate the impact of patterns of racial and economic segregation?

“We’re starting the second phase like the first: Without a preconception of what we’ll find or where the research will take us,” Novara says. “But now it’s clear that for all of our sakes, as a region, we need to find and embrace new answers.”

Read the Cost of Segregation »

The Calumet area encompasses dozens of Chicago neighborhoods and south suburban municipalities, many of which work on tight budgets to serve moderate- and low-income communities. Including areas on both sides of the Illinois-Indiana border, it’s home to more than a million residents, a legacy of industry, the south shore lakefront and the Calumet River, and 6,000 acres of high-quality natural areas.

“When you look at the size of the landscape, it’s about the same size as the San Francisco Bay Area—900 square miles. Given all that, it’s not easy to coordinate growth. It means we need to work together across disciplines and across the region,” says Bill Steers, general manager at ArcelorMittal, which has supported MPC’s work in the Calumet region, including with the Calumet Land Conservation Partnership, which works to ehance the area’s open space and rare ecosystems.

Steers is also the chair of the board of directors at the Calumet Collaborative, a public-private coalition focused on fostering economic, ecological and cultural opportunities in the area. “MPC has been involved in all these fronts,” Steers says. “I can’t say enough about how much MarySue [Barrett, MPC president] and Josh [Ellis, MPC vice president] are respected for their work in this region.”

MPC works directly with local institutions too. In suburban Blue Island, for example, our staff has been a resource to secure outside funding for needed infrastructure improvements, including millions of dollars in state, county and regional grants to mitigate urban flooding by planting new trees and replacing crumbling 80-year-old pipes. We’ve connected the city with volunteer architects to design gathering points along the Cal-Sag Trail and helped write the municipality’s transit-oriented development plan.

“MPC has provided staff time and expertise we couldn’t afford—they take policy work and make it concrete in our community. And the Calumet Stormwater Collaborative has brought people here that wouldn’t be in the Calumet region without it.”

—Jason Berry, former deputy director of community development for the City of Blue Island

The most dramatic example of MPC’s dedication was the dive Ellis took into the Calumet River last year (and again in 2017), to show off a much cleaner river and to raise funds to continue the 26-mile Cal-Sag Trail along the Calumet. “We saw an egret, herons, jumping fish, a turtle. We’ve got a ways to go, but think about what the river offers Blue Island and the Calumet region. You’re going to start to see concerts along the water, boat races, and more, because the water is finally clean enough that people can truly see the Calumet as a river,” he says.

In 2014, MPC formed another regionwide initiative, the Calumet Stormwater Collaborative. With severe storms, topography and aging sewer systems that consistently flood homes and businesses, the region has an ad hoc mix of government, nonprofit organizations, universities, land managers and engineering firms that play some role in resolving the issue. The collaborative meets monthly to coordinate their efforts.

“Because of the connections we make and the information they have learned, we believe people are making better decisions about stormwater,” Ellis says. Early products of the collaborative include free design schematics for green infrastructure and an online mapping viewer that makes a wide array of data for planning stormwater solutions accessible to the public.

Ramont Bell, an outreach coordinator with Faith in Place, a nonprofit that helps houses of worship improve their ecological footprint, says the resources make a big difference. “Every month someone presents a new tool we can use or emergent technology coming down the line. People who work at agencies offering grants tell us how to apply. If you have a question, you can just turn around and tap someone on the shoulder and ask their perspective,” he says about the value of participants in the collaborative.

Last year, Bell was part of a team that installed five new rain gardens at local churches. With site-specific calculations, gravel filling underground ditches, and particularly thirsty plant species, each garden can hold more than 3,000 gallons of rain water—water that doesn’t then flow to overtaxed stormwater sewers. “They’re beautiful gardens, too. It really enhances the blocks they’re on,” Bell says. “The community just loves it.”

Bell says that the garden grant from the Chi-Cal Rivers Fund, which also gave 500 rain barrels to local residents and helped prevent more than 43,000 gallons of stormwater from entering the sewer system, is an example of what the Calumet Stormwater Collaborative offers. The partnership of nonprofits and consultants that delivered the program—including planning, engineering and community outreach—was formed at the monthly collaborative meetings. “Everything we needed was there,” Bell says.

MPC is also looking to boost the region’s capacity by making local government more effective. MPC has a track record of fostering collaboration between units of government on housing issues and building inspections. That work, along with models of service sharing from clusters of communities around Glenview and Oswego, could lead to broader partnerships to help maintain infrastructure, attract new businesses and manage natural resources.

“These are very sophisticated and battle-tested models to share services and staff to be more efficient,” says Alden Loury, MPC’s director of research and evaluation. “With some technical assistance from us and partners like the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, joint procurement and shared staff could deliver more with less for Calumet.”

More about Calumet collaboration »

The garden, restaurant and Boxville are projects of Urban Juncture, a community development group that operates the Bronzeville Incubator, encompassing a half dozen new enterprises on 51st. Bernard Loyd, the group’s founder and president, says that the cluster is a start, but after decades of population loss and disinvestment, the commercial corridor’s empty lots and shuttered storefronts show that it’s not enough.

“There are ten things within a block or so of the station, but there really needs to be 50 or more diverse quality offerings to get to that density and diversity where it will attract folks,” says Loyd, who also sits on the board of the Metropolitan Planning Council. “Transit stations are centers of commerce in communities. On the South Side of Chicago and much of the West Side of Chicago, that’s not there. Fundamentally, it’s an issue of a lack of opportunity and a lack of access to resources.”

That might be changing, though. The 51st Street stop is one of seven CTA stations that are targeted by L-Evated Chicago, a new partnership between MPC and other organizations, committed to transforming the half-mile radius around the stations into hubs of development and community life. The initiative is funded by a national coalition, the Strong, Prosperous, And Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC), which chose six cities’ applications that leverage existing efforts and create development patterns that support racial equity, health, and climate resiliency.

“L-Evated Chicago is an example of a program that can help the city turn around a legacy of disinvestment and segregation. Equitable development—that builds density and creates growth in places that have been starved for investment for too long— is good for the city, good for the region, and in the big picture, good for the planet, “ says Don Chen, the director for equitable development at the Ford Foundation, one of SPARCC’s funders.

The advantages of building a mix of housing and retail in close walking distance to transit stops is well documented. With our Grow Chicago caluculator and advocacy with others for the ordinance that changed Chicago zoning laws to promote transit oriented development, MPC has been an enthusiastic supporter. Yet while TOD has become increasingly common in Chicago and suburbs over the last few years, most new buildings close to transit have been in more well-to-do communities, from Wicker Park to Arlington Heights.

“We have four different communities [in L-Evated Chicago], each looking at the issue of transit-oriented development from their own perspective. We have these opportunities to learn from each other, and we’ve been talking with other cities too, like San Francisco and Memphis, to hear their ideas.”

—Ghian Foreman, executive director of the Greater Southwest Development Corp.

ETOD—equitable transit-oriented development—is a conscious effort to ensure that the benefits of transit-oriented development are available to low- and moderate-income communities as well, where they can be a catalyst for investment and growth. MPC’s Corridor Development Initiative is a proven technical assistance tool to support ETOD. We have organized participatory planning processes in communities from Aurora to Logan Square, where hundreds of residents work with architects, developers and finance experts to create community-led priorities for local development at a specific site.

“The Corridor Development Initiative is a community engagement tool to help neighborhood residents envision what kind of development they want and give them a way to have input before development starts,” says Kendra Freeman, a manager at MPC.

L-Evated Chicago also brings in community partners to the discussion of how to best promote cultural, retail, and residential development around their local CTA transit station, joining a diverse collaborative of civic organizations, policy and advocacy groups, community development financial institutions and the City of Chicago. In addition to focusing on the specific locations, the coalition will also transform public and private decision-making structures in the region that have an impact on systemic development patterns. “There are institutional processes rooted in our history of living so separately by income and race. These structural inequities continue to hinder growth in neighborhoods where low-income residents and people of color live,” Freeman says. “We need to change that.”

In Bronzeville, Loyd hopes that in the next six to 12 months, L-Evated Chicago can help “activate the streetscape” with clean-up, new trees, and signs and events that center around the neighborhood’s arts, history, and culture. Soon after, he’s hoping to attract new access to capital and other resources to fuel more local development.

“Train lines should be gateways between communities. In many ways, unfortunately, they are not,” says Loyd. “To me, what is so exciting about L-Evated Chicago is how it has embraced the El as a common thread that binds us together as a city.”

More about transit-oriented development »

For recreation, ecological diversity, and green space, Chicago’s rivers are our last frontier, rivaling the historic reclaiming of our lakefront as open, free and clear. The Chicago, Calumet and Des Plaines rivers, with a total of 155 miles of riverfront in the city, offer amazing potential to be assets in different ways for communities across the city.

The Metropolitan Planning Council has long advocated for riverfront access and  redevelopment, both regionally and in specific sites. With Mayor Emanuel’s release of Our Great Rivers, a new vision for Chicago’s rivers last year, we have launched an ambitous effort to enhance riverfront access.

In 2015, the Office of the Mayor and the Joyce Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and ArcelorMittal asked MPC to helm Great Rivers Chicago, to create a guide for a high-functioning river system in the city. With Chicago’s rivers cleaner than in decades, there was a clear need to coordinate riverfront development that has been accelerating piecemeal, beyond the Loop’s Riverwalk, and to unlock latent potential where investment has been largely absent.

The result, released in August 2016, is Our Great Rivers, a vision for Chicago’s rivers to be “inviting, productive and living,” with benchmarks on real-time water quality information and continuous riverfront trails by 2020, 2030 and 2040. Created in partnership with Friends of the Chicago River and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and many others, the vision is the result of wide-ranging research, input from an experienced leadership commission and resource group, and the most varied and sweeping public outreach process in MPC’s history.

“Talking to so many people, we really heard about local priorities and the kind of amenities that would attract people to the riverfront. We saw how different communities have different needs and opportunities—some conversations focused heavily on recreation, others on access or jobs ,” says Kara Riggio, Great Rivers Chicago manager at MPC. The vision includes five examples of locations where new planning and investment could create exciting new riverfront development. “If you think of it like Google Earth, this Vision addresses issues at the system level, then zooms in to see how the ideas could play out at an underused specific site along the river and begins the conversation for what could be possible in the future.”

“Like all city dwellers, Chicagoans are hungry for quiet places of reflection, relaxation and recreation. MPC and the City have embarked on a sensitive and thoughtful process to guide development on our rivers. I believe that the exhaustive strategic planning to date has set the stage for success.”

—Kim Coventry, executive director of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

At the Ashland Avenue site at Bubbly Creek, for instance, the Vision explores how a dormant parcel of land could become a mixed-use development featuring housing, retail, community space, river access, and recreational opportunities like a riverfront trail. Located right at the Ashland CTA Orange Line station, the changes would form a new river-oriented and transit-oriented hub and an asset for the Bridgeport and Pilsen neighborhoods.

“When I think about access to that wide open space, I really get excited. There are so many possibilities on so many levels,” says Juan Carlos Ocon, the principal at Benito Juarez Community Academy, located on the edge of an industrial corridor just a few blocks north of the site.

Juarez students have joined the recently-formed South Branch Park Advisory Council (PAC) and are engaged in PAC initiatives. The high school’s art department has already been talking about collaborating with local organizations to decorate the space, ROTC and sports teams want to practice and drill in the park, and the science department has eyes on using it as a new outdoor classroom. “That’s a new relationship for us that MPC helped broker—they came to the school and gave us a chance to be involved,” Ocon says.

MPC has been working with a number of community groups on revitalizing their riverfronts, particularly in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods on the South and Southwest sides, where the rivers are often inaccessible for residents. Our online resource guide, Activate Your Riverfront, walks users through the process of unlocking the river’s potential, from determining who owns the land to promoting a project. These types of initiatives received a significant boost, thanks to the recent announcement by the Chicago Community Trust, an initial funder of Great Rivers Chicago, that they will fund community planning efforts for riverfront development.

In partnership with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, the The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Comcast, Related Midwest and The 601W Companies, MPC launched the Chicago’s River Edge Ideas Lab, where nine leading architecture firms are exploring public access and human-scale development at three key places—the Civic Opera building, whose western façade drops directly into the river, under and around Congress Parkway, and 16th Street—all representing significant challenges to a continuous riverfront trail. The concepts are presented at Expo 72 now through January 2018 in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and includes a traveling exhibit that will be featured in a variety of neighborhoods. The physical exhibit complemented by a digital component where viewers weigh in on their visual preferences. The outcome of the Ideas Lab will be a datapoint to help update the City’s riverfront design guidelines.

“The Ideas Lab with its robust effort to gather public feedback is the first necessary step to ensure that development along the rivers considers the emotional and physical perceptions of those who will use these spaces,“ says Kim Coventry, the executive director of the Driehaus Foundation, which funded the project. “The stakes are high for both the City and for the public but I need only look to MPC’s long record of coordinating highly complex projects to feel confident that this initiative will achieve the desired outcomes.”

More about Great Rivers Chicago »

Financial summary

$250,000–$499,999

• The Chicago Community Trust

$100,000–$249,999

• Grand Victoria Foundation
• Harris Family Foundation
• The Joyce Foundation
• JPMorgan Chase
• Robert R. McCormick Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

• Anonymous
• Bank of America
• PNC Bank

$20,000–$49,999

• Abbott
• AptarGroup, Inc.
• ArcelorMittal USA
• Association of American Railroads
• The Banc Funds Company
• BMO Harris Bank
• Bowman C. Lingle Trust
• John and Kathleen Buck
• Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC
• Carol Lavin Bernick Family Foundation
• CIBC Bank
• ComEd
• The Crown Family
• James and Catherine Denny
• Amy Falls and Hartley Rogers
• Fifth Third Bank
• Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
• Grosvenor Capital Management
• Harris Family Foundation
• InterPark Holdings LLC
• Jones Lang LaSalle
• Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Keiser
• LaSalle Investment Management
• MB Financial Bank, N.A.
• Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust
• Northern Trust
• Peoples Gas
• Polk Bros. Foundation
• The Prince Charitable Trusts
• The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
• Patrick G. Ryan
• U.S. Bank
• Walgreen Co.
• Wintrust Financial Corporation
• Yagan Family Fund

$10,000–$19,999

• AbbVie Inc.
• Nicholas W. Alexos
• The Allstate Corporation
• Baxter International Inc.
• George and Laura Bilicic
• The Boeing Company
• Care Capital Properties, Inc.
• Carnahan-Daniels Foundation
• CenterPoint Properties Trust
• Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• Comcast
• Kent P. Dauten
• Craig J. and Janet Duchossois
• The Duchossois Group, Inc.
• The Edgewater Funds
• Equity Residential
• Paul J. Finnegan
• First Midwest Bancorp
• John S. Gates, Jr.
• Jacques N. Gordon and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire
• Heitman
• ITW
• The John Buck Company
• KPMG LLP
• Lazard
• Andrew J. McKenna, Sr.
• James N. Perry
• John S. Poth
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Sacks Family Foundation
• Union Pacific Corporation
• West Central Association - Chamber of Commerce
• Wight & Company

$5,000–$9,999

• Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
• Anonymous
• Ariel Investments, LLC
• Baird & Warner, Inc.
• Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
• BNSF Railway Company
• Booth Hansen Associates
• Brinshore Development LLC
• CDW Corporation
• CH2M HILL
• Chris and Cira Conley
• E. David Coolidge III
• Crescent Heights Inspirational Living
• Shawn Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly
• Dr. Scholl Foundation
• Ann M. Drake
• Draper and Kramer, Inc.
• DSC Logistics, Inc.
• Edelman
• Farr Associates
• Jamee and Marshall Field, V
• Franczek Radelet P.C.
• Freedman Seating Company
• Gensler
• Rodney and Keith Goldstein
• Gould & Ratner LLP
• The Habitat Company
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Mr. and Mrs. John H. Krehbiel, Jr.
• Loyola University Chicago
• Jim and Kitty Mann
• McDonald's Corporation
• Lee M. Mitchell
• National Parks Conservation Association
• NORR Architects
• Northwestern Memorial Foundation
• Ozinga
• Ellen Partridge and Ed Tanzman
• Pepper Construction Company
• Perkins & Will
• The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
• R2 Companies
• Sam Schwartz Engineering
• SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
• TransitCenter, Inc.
• United Center
• University of Chicago, Office of Civic Engagement
• William Blair & Company, LLC

$1,000–$4,999

• Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, Dicianni & Krafthefer, P.C.
• Anonymous
• J. Tyler Anthony
• Dr. Byron Brazier, Apostolic Church of God
• Kyle Barnett
• MarySue Barrett
• Matthew Brewer
• Monique Brinkman-Hill
• Todd C. Brown
• Christopher B. Burke, Ph.D.
• Paul and Rebecca Carlisle
• Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau
• Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation
• CSX Transportation Inc.
• DePaul University
• Enterprise Community Investments
• Robert V. Fitzsimmons, II
• Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser
• Linda Goodman and David Narefsky
• Joseph Gregoire
• M. Hill Hammock
• Kathy Hopinkah Hannan
• HBK Engineering, LLC
• Henkels & McCoy
• Andrew J. Hesselbach
• Holsten Human Capital Development, NFP
• Holsten Real Estate Development Corporation
• Illinois American Water
• Illinois Housing Development Authority
• The Irving Harris Foundation
• Johnson Research Group
• Christopher J. King
• Thomas C. Kirschbraun
• Deborah Lahey
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• Mary K. Ludgin
• Susan J. Moran and John M. McDonough
• Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
• Janet Myers
• Northside Funders Group
• Northwest Water Planning Alliance
• Savitri Pai and Howard Randell
• Patricia J. Hurley & Associates, Inc.
• J. Scot Pepper
• Richard W. Porter
• Howard M. Radzely
• George A. Ranney, Jr.
• James M. Ratcliffe
• Matthew R. Reilein
• Related Midwest
• Resolute Consulting, LLC
• Randy I. Rochman
• Jesse and Michele Ruiz
• Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
• John Schlossman, Jocarno Fund
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
• Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates, Inc.
• SPAAN Tech, Inc.
• Martin Stern
• Ellen and Jim Stirling
• Ambassador Louis & Marjorie Susman
• Taiber Kosmala & Associates, LLC
• Bruce W. Taylor
• TeamWerks
• Michael A. Thomas
• Tribune Real Estate Holdings, LLC
• Union League Club of Chicago
• University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
• Mary White Vasys
• Robert Weissbourd
• Paula Wolff

$500–$999

• Alternative Schools Network
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Edward K. Banker
• Peter B. Bensinger
• Calumet Heritage Partnership
• Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives
• Cook County Department of Building & Zoning
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
• The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc.
• Forefront
• Greater Milwaukee Foundation
• Grisko
• Becky B. Hurley
• Jasculca/Terman and Associates, Inc.
• John McLinden
• Brian Meltzer
• Robert E. Miller
• Patricia C. Bobb & Associates
• Arthur Pearson
• Presence Health
• Preservation of Affordable Housing
• Robinson Engineering Ltd.
• The Ruskin Group
• Paul Shadle and Monica Drane
• Adele S. Simmons
• South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
• Urban Juncture, Inc.
• Valerie S. Kretchmer Associates, Inc.
• Vasys Consulting Ltd.
• Village of Park Forest
• Pam and Doug Walter

$150–$499

• a5 Inc.
• Access Community Health Network
• Donna D'Oro Anderson
• Mark A. Angelini
• Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.
• Calvert W. Audrain
• Carmelo Barbaro
• Peter V. Baugher
• Kate Bensen
• Judy Block
• Joel Bookman
• Cannon Design
• Gloria Castillo
• Chicago Architecture Foundation
• Chicago Community Loan Fund
• The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
• The Chicago Public Education Fund
• Chicago Title Insurance Company
• Chicago Urban League
• Elizabeth Cisar
• Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman
• Community Investment Corporation
• Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• Kim Coventry
• Robert E. Cowhey
• Ellen C. Craig
• Barbara Flynn Currie
• Karen Darch
• Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Delaney
• Kristi DeLaurentiis
• Laura DeMink
• DLA Piper
• Stephen Eastwood
• Sunny Fischer
• Cicely Fleming
• Patrice Frey
• S. B. Friedman & Company
• Gregg Garmisa
• Janet H. Gilbert
• Global Philanthropy Partnership
• Governors State University
• Rachel and Devin Gross
• Venu Gupta
• Emily J. Harris
• Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
• Mattie Hunter
• Robert and Saran Hutchins
• IFF
• Infrastructure Engineering, Inc.
• Derrick James
• Charisse Conanan Johnson
• Dennis J. Keller, Keller Family Foundation
• Doug Kenshol
• Steven Koch
• Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Co.
• Robert Larrimore
• Latino Policy Forum
• Leadership Greater Chicago
• Lisa Yun Lee
• Kenneth and Lucy Lehman
• John and Jill Levi
• Paul Levin
• Manufacturing Renaissance
• Maritime Fund
• David May
• Anne F. McMillen
• Todd Meyer
• Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
• Ronald S. Miller
• Marisa Novara
• Douglas Pancoast
• Perimeter Architects
• Jonathan Perman
• Paula C. Pienton
• Jim and Rita Planey
• Erika Poethig
• Kristen E. Prinz
• Ralph G. Moore & Associates
• Stephen Charles Ross
• Safer Foundation
• Henrietta Saunders
• Alvin Schexnider
• Stephen E. Schlickman
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Shared-Use Mobility Center
• Sheridan Park Consulting
• Ellen and Richard Shubart
• Patrick Slattery
• Jeff E. Smith
• Robin Snyderman
• Steans Family Foundation
• F. John Steffen
• Shelley Stern Grach
• Isabel Carter Stewart
• Regan Stockstell
• Darwin G. Stuart
• A. Gail Sturm
• Teska Associates, Inc.
• Threewalls
• Ed Van Poucke
• Village of South Holland
• Washington, Pittman & McKeever LLC
• Audrey Wennink
• Woodstock Institute
• Donna F. Zarcone

Leadership

2016 Board of Governors

Executive Committee Officers

• Chair
  Jacques N. Gordon
  Global Investment Strategist
  LaSalle Investment Management
• Vice Chair-Nominations
  Ann M. Drake
  CEO
  DSC Logistics, Inc.
• Vice Chair-Nominations
  General Counsel
  Jesse H. Ruiz
  Partner
  Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
• Vice Chair-Development
  Ellen Carnahan
  Principal
  Machrie Enterprises LLC
• Vice Chair-Development
  James P. Stirling
  Senior Advisor
  UBS
• Vice Chair-Government Relations
  Robert V. Fitzsimmons
  Managing Director and Principal
  Next Generation Public Affairs, Inc.
• Secretary
  Kathy Hopinkah Hannan
  Partner, Board Leadership Center | Market Dev.
  KPMG LLP
• Treasurer
  Bruce W. Taylor
  Vice Chairman
  MB Financial Bank, N.A.
• Past Chair
  Joseph A. Gregoire
  Executive Director of Development
  Loyola University Chicago
• President
  MarySue Barrett
  President
  Metropolitan Planning Council

Board of Governors Members

*Executive Committee Members
**Resigned in 2016

• **J. Tyler Anthony
  Senior Vice President, Distribution Operations
  ComEd
• **Zandra Zuno Baermann
  Executive Director, Multicultural Marketing Practice Lead
  Golin/Harris International
• Kyle Barnett
  Regional President, Chicago Metro North
  BMO Harris Bank
• Carol Ross Barney
  Founder & President
  Ross Barney Architects, Inc.
• George W. Bilicic
  Vice Chairman of US Investment Banking
  Lazard
• Byron Brazier
  Pastor
  Apostolic Church of God
• Matthew Brewer
  Partner
  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Monique Brinkman-Hill
  Senior VP & Managing Director, Wealth Management
  Northern Trust
• *Todd C. Brown
• **John A. Buck
  Chairman & CEO
  The John Buck Company
• Christopher B. Burke
  President
  Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• Olga Camargo
  Managing Partner
  TOROSO Investments, LLC
• *Paul C. Carlisle
  Executive Vice President
  Wintrust Commercial Banking
• Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau
  Pececa, Ltd.
• Chris Conley
  Two Bit Ventures, LLC
• Lester Crown
  Crown Family Philanthropies
• Derek Douglas
  Vice President for Civic Engagement
  University of Chicago
• *James C. Franczek
  President
  Franczek Radelet P.C.
• John S. Gates
  Chairman & CEO
  PortaeCo LLC
• Linda Goodman
  Principal
  Goodman Williams Group
• **Alan “Al” Gordon
  Chairman & CEO
  Richland, Gordon & Company
• *M. Hill Hammock
  Chairman
  Chicago Deferred Exchange Company
• *King Harris
  Chairman
  Harris Holdings Inc.
• Andrew J. Hesselbach
  Vice President of Construction
  Peoples Gas
• Christopher J. King
  President
  Robinson Engineering Ltd.
• Lerry J. Knox
  CEO
  Unplugged Capital, LLC
• Bernard Loyd
  President
  Urban Juncture, Inc.
• Mary K. Ludgin
  Managing Dir & Dir. of Global Investment Research
  Heitman
• Peter C. Malecek
  Market Executive, Global Commercial Banking
  Bank of America
  
• *James E. Mann 
• John M. McDonough 
• *Lee M. Mitchell
  Managing Partner
  Thoma Bravo, Inc.
• Matthew Moog
  CEO
  PowerReviews
• Juan Gabriel Moreno
  President
  JGMA, Ltd.
• *J. Scot Pepper
  Executive Vice President
  Pepper Construction Company
• John S. Poth
  Partner, Nat'l PCS Quality and Risk Mgmt Leader
  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• **Quintin E. Primo, III
  Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
  Capri Investment Group
• Howard M. Radzely
  Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
  The Boeing Company
• Jorge Ramirez
  President
  Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• *George A. Ranney
• Matthew R. Reilein
  Managing Director & Head of Impact Investing
  O'Brien-Staley Partners
• Smita Shah
  President
  SPAAN Tech, Inc.
• Lisa Snow
  Managing Director, Dispute Consulting
  Duff & Phelps
• Martin Stern
  Senior Managing Director
  CBRE, Inc.
• Michael A. Thomas
  Vice President, Administration & Real Estate
  The Allstate Corporation
• Mary White Vasys
  President
  Vasys Consulting Ltd.
• *Paula Wolff
  Director
  Illinois Justice Project
• Jessica Droste Yagan
  CEO
  Impact Engine

2016 Honorary Board

• Edward K. Banker 
  Senior Vice President (Retired) 
  Harris Trust and Savings Bank
• Laurence O. Booth 
  Design Principal 
  Booth Hansen Associates
• Donald Haider 
  Professor of Public Management 
  Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
• ^[1]Lawrence Howe
  (Retired)
  The Chicago Community Trust
• James J. McClure 
  Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
• Daniel R. Toll 
  Chairman (Retired) 
  Corona Corporation
• Priscilla A. (Pam) Walter
  Of Counsel
  Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

^[1]Lawrence Howe passed away July 2016 at 94 years old. He was a dedicated member of MPC’s Board of Governors for over 20 years and Honorary Board member for 4 years.

2016 Resource Board

• Mark A. Angelini
  President
  Mercy Housing Lakefront
• David E. Baker
  Vice President of External Affairs (Retired)
  Illinois Institute of Technology
• Erin Lavin Cabonargi
  Director of Construction
  Sterling Bay Companies
• Gloria Castillo
  President
  Chicago United Inc.
• Alison L. Chung
  President
  TeamWerks
• Madeleine K.B. Condit
  Founder and CEO
  Madeleine Condit & Associates LLC
• Ellen C. Craig
• Bernard J. Ford
• John F. Hartray
  Principal
  Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Ltd.
• Maria P. Hibbs
  Executive Director
  Hive Chicago Fund for Connected Learning
• Sokoni Karanja
  Founder, Senior Advisor
  Centers for New Horizons, Inc.
• Thomas C. Kirschbraun
  Managing Director, Capital Markets Group
  Jones Lang LaSalle
• Avis LaVelle
  President
  A. LaVelle Consulting Services
• Ryan Cudney
  SVP | Corporate Reputation & Risk
  Edelman
• John G. Markowski
  President & CEO
  Community Investment Corporation
• Sylvia Puente
  Executive Director
  Latino Policy Forum 
• James M. Ratcliffe
• Robert G. Reiter
  Secretary-Treasurer
  Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• Christopher FitzHenry Robling
  Principal
  Clearspan Strategic, LLC
• Unmi Song
  Executive Director
  Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• A. Gail Sturm
  Executive Vice President
  ProTen Realty Group/CORFAC International
• Joseph A. Williams
  Co-Chairman
  Granite Development Corporation

2016 Executive Advisors

• Nicholas W. Alexos
  Managing Director
  Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
• José (Joe) E. Almeida
  Chairman & CEO
  Baxter International Inc.
• Carol L. Bernick
  CEO
  Polished Nickel Capital Management LLC
• George W. Bilicic
  Vice Chairman of US Investment Banking
  Lazard
• John A. Buck
  Chairman
  The John Buck Company
• John L. Bucksbaum
  Chief Executive Officer
  Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC
• Robert M. Chapman
  Chief Executive Officer
  CenterPoint Properties Trust
• Marsha Cruzan
  Regional President
  U.S. Bank
• James Denny
  President
  JMD Investments
• Craig J. Duchossois
  Chairman & CEO
  The Duchossois Group, Inc.
• John S. Gates
  Chairman & CEO
  PortaeCo LLC
• Stephen J. Hagge
  President & CEO
  AptarGroup Inc.
• Edward R. Hamberger
  President & CEO
  Association of American Railroads
• Kathy Hopinkah Hannan
  Nat’l Managing Partner, Corp. Resp. & Diversity
  KPMG LLP
• John Hatherly
  Managing Director
  Wynnchurch Capital, Ltd.
• Christie B. Kelly
  Global Chief Financial Officer
  Jones Lang LaSalle
• Liam Krehbiel
  Founder & CEO
  A Better Chicago
• Raymond J. Lewis
  Chief Executive Officer
  Care Capital Properties, Inc.
• Jeffrey A. Malehorn
  President & CEO
  World Business Chicago
• Charles Moore
  President
  The Banc Funds Company
• David J. Neithercut
  President & CEO
  Equity Residential
• J. Marshall Peck
  President
  InterPark Holdings LLC
• Larry D. Richman
  Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head, US Region
  President & CEO
  CIBC Bank USA
• Michael Scudder
  President & CEO
  First Midwest Bancorp
• Robert A. Sullivan
  Regional President
  Fifth Third Bank
• Scott Swanson
  President-Illinois Banking
  PNC Bank
• Frederick H. Waddell
  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
  Northern Trust
• Edward J. Wehmer
  President & CEO
  Wintrust Financial Corporation

2016 Housing and Community Development Committee

• Mark A. Angelini
  Mercy Housing Lakefront
• Bennett Applegate
  Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen, P.C.
• Forrest D. Bailey
  Draper and Kramer, Inc.
• David E. Baker
  Retired
• Byron Brazier
  Apostolic Church of God
• Matthew Brewer
  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Eva Brown
• Todd C. Brown
• Lee Brown
  Teska Associates, Inc.
• Paul C. Carlisle
  Wintrust Commercial Banking
• Savannah Clement
  City of Evanston
• Chris Conley
  Two Bit Ventures, LLC
• Pamela Daniels-Halisi
  BMO Harris Bank
• Deborah Dixon
  Gorman & Company, Inc.
• Derek Douglas
  University of Chicago
• Peter Friedman
  Holland & Knight LLP
• Andrew E. Geer
  Enterprise Community Partners
• Joseph A. Gregoire
  Loyola University Chicago
• Kathy H. Hannan
  KPMG LLP
• King Harris
  Harris Holdings Inc.
• Maria P. Hibbs
• Juanita Irizarry
  Friends of the Parks
• Peter Levavi
  Brinshore Development LLC
• Juan C. Linares
  Latin United Community Housing Association
• Bernard Loyd
  Urban Juncture, Inc.
• Mary K. Ludgin
  Heitman
• Patricia R. Mahon
  Village of South Holland
• Wyllys Mann
  Baird & Warner, Inc.
• John G. Markowski
  Community Investment Corporation
• Robert E. Miller
  Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.
• Juan G. Moreno
  JGMA, Ltd.
• Matthew R. Reilein
• Jesse H. Ruiz
  Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
• Maria N. Saldaña
  Oak Park Residence Corporation
• Lisa Snow
  Duff & Phelps
• A. Gail Sturm
  ProTen Realty Group
• Bruce W. Taylor
  MB Financial Bank, N.A.
• Mary W. Vasys
  Vasys Consulting Ltd.
• Mark A. Wegener
  SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
• William Woodley
  The Community Builders, Inc.

2016 Sensible Growth Committee

• Calvert W. Audrain
• Monique Brinkman-Hill
  Northern Trust
• Christopher B. Burke
  Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
• Sharon Bush
  Grand Victoria Foundation
• Monica Chadha
  Civic Projects LLC
• Robert K. Clough
  Gensler
• Ellen C. Craig
• Mark De La Vergne
  Sam Schwartz Engineering
• Alejandra Garza
  AGG Consulting
• Linda Goodman
  Goodman Williams Group
• John F. Hartray
  Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Ltd.
• Adolfo Hernandez
  Pritzker Family Foundation
• Tiffany Ingram
• Christopher J. King
  Robinson Engineering Ltd.
• Thomas C. Kirschbraun
  Jones Lang LaSalle
• Suzanne Malec-McKenna
  Chicago Wilderness
• James E. Mann
• John M. McDonough
• Luis Montgomery
  2IM Group, LLC
• Heather D. Parish
  Pierce Family Foundation
• Arthur Pearson
  Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
• Donovan W. Pepper
  Walgreen Co.
• John S. Poth
  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Thomas H. Price
  Conservation Design Forum
• Howard M. Radzely
  The Boeing Company
• Carol Ross Barney
  Ross Barney Architects, Inc.
• Sabina L. Shaikh
  University of Chicago
• David J. Siegel
  Sidley Austin LLP
• Michael A. Thomas
  The Allstate Corporation
• Michael A. Toolis
  VOA Associates, Inc.
• Lois Vitt Sale
  Wight & Company
• Kimberly Wasserman Nieto
  Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

2016 Regional Planning & Investment Committee

• William Abolt
  AECOM
• Kyle Barnett
  BMO Harris Bank
• George W. Bilicic
  Lazard
• Olga Camargo
  TOROSO Investments, LLC
• Ellen Carnahan
  Machrie Enterprises LLC
• Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau
  Primera Engineers, Ltd.
• Robert V. Fitzsimmons
  Next Generation Public Affairs, Inc.
• Bernard J. Ford
• James C. Franczek
  Franczek Radelet P.C.
• John S. Gates
  PortaeCo LLC
• Al Gordon
  Richland, Gordon & Company
• Jacques N. Gordon
  LaSalle Investment Management
• Adrian Guerrero
  Union Pacific Corporation
• Andy Hasselbach
  People's Gas
• Lerry J. Knox
  Unplugged Capital, LLC
• Sue Lee
  Ernst & Young LLP
• Peter C. Malecek
  Bank of America
• Thomas H. Morsch
  Public Financial Management Group
• Stephen Newell
  IBM Corporation
• Michael A. Pagano
  University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
• J. Scot Pepper
  Pepper Construction Company
• Paula C. Pienton
  T.Y. Lin International, Inc.
• George A. Ranney
• Robert G. Reiter
  Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• Stephen E. Schlickman
  University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
• Paul W. Shadle
  DLA Piper
• Smita Shah
  SPAAN Tech, Inc.
• Martin Stern
  CBRE, Inc.
• James P. Stirling
  UBS Investment Bank
• Emily Tapia Lopez
  HNTB
• Paula Wolff
  Illinois Justice Project
• Paula Worthington
  University of Chicago