Business

Frank M. Clark, CEO of ComEd
John Rodgers, Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management

Jim Reynolds, CEO of Loop Capital

Government
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama
Former Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle

 Social Issues
Carol L. Adams, Ph.D., IDHS Secretary
Joyce Gallagher, Commissioner Dept of Aging
Cardinal Francis E. George, Archbishop of Chicago
Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam

Education

John Claude Brizard, CEO of Chicago Public Schools

Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education

Michael Scott, Former Chicago Board President Board Education

Health

Dr. Terry Mason, Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Hospitals

Dr. Eric Whitaker, EVP for Strategic Affiliations and Associate Dean for the University of Chicago Medical Center

Legal Issues/Law Enforcement

Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy
Dr. Tyrone Powers, Former F.B.I. Agent, Author and Professor

Robert Grant, Chicago Director, F.B.I.

Attorney Jim Montgomery of Cochran and Montgomery Law Firm