59 Fellows Names Who’s Who in Crain’s Chicago Business
Who’s Who in Chicago Business 2025 — the Crain’s Chicago Business authoritative guide to power in Chicago — is here, and we are proud to share that 59 Fellows are recognized on this prestigious list. This year’s edition features more than 450 influential leaders who are shaping Chicago’s business, civic and cultural spaces. From museum leaders to city officials, lawyers to educators, grantmakers to financiers and everyone in between, these are Chicago’s movers and shakers.
Please join us in congratulating the LGC Signature Fellows and Daniel Burnham Fellows named Crain’s Who’s Who 2025:
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION
Jean Franczyk
President and CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Chevy Humphrey
President and CEO, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Daniel Burnham Fellow
AUTOS, MANUFACTURING AND UTILITIES
Calvin Butler
President and CEO, Exelon
LGC Fellow since 2005
Wendell Dallas
President and CEO, Nicor Gas
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Gil Quiniones
CEO, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)
Daniel Burnham Fellow
BUSINESS SERVICES, CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND RETAIL
Charles A. Tribbett III
Vice Chairman and Consultant, Russell Reynolds Associates
LGC Fellow since 1986
CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
Nosa Ehimwenman
President and CEO, Bowa Construction
Daniel Burnham Fellow
EDUCATION
Mary Ellen Caron
CEO, After School Matters
LGC Fellow since 1993
Janice Jackson
CEO, Hope Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2007
Robert Manuel
President, DePaul University
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Pedro Martinez
CEO, Chicago Public Schools
LGC Fellow since 2005
Diana Rauner
President, Start Early
LGC Fellow since 2007
Mark Reed
President, Loyola University Chicago
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Juan Salgado
Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2005
Zaldwaynaka “Z” Scott
President, Chicago State University
LGC Fellow since 1991
FINANCIAL SERVICES
A. Steven Crown
General Partner and Co-President, Henry Crown & Co.
LGC Fellow since 1985
Darrel Hackett
CEO, BMO Financial; President and CEO, BMO Bank
LGC Fellow since 2007
Ashley Duchossois Joyce
Chairman, Duchossois Capital Management
LGC Fellow since 2018
Martin Nesbitt
Co-CEO, Co-Chairman and Senior Partner, Vistria Group
LGC Fellow since 1994
John Rogers Jr.
Chairman and Co-CEO, Ariel Investments
LGC Fellow since 1985
Kathy Scherer
Chicago Managing Partner, Deloitte
LGC Fellow since 2012
Andrea Zopp
Managing Partner, CAST US, Cleveland Avenue
LGC Fellow since 1990
GOVERNMENT
Ciere Boatright
Commissioner, Chicago Department of Planning & Development
LGC Fellow since 2020
Larita Clark
CEO, Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
LGC Fellow since 1990
Austan Goolsbee
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2007
Valerie Jarrett
CEO, Obama Foundation
LGC Fellow since 1986
Fritz Kaegi
Assessor, Cook County
LGC Fellow since 2013
Bradley Schneider
U.S. Representative, 10th Congressional District of Illinois
U.S. House of Representatives
LGC Fellow since 2003
Anna Valencia
City Clerk, City of Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2018
GRANTMAKING
Gillian Darlow
CEO, Polk Bros. Foundation
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Sean Garrett
President and CEO, United Way of Metro Chicago
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Eva Giglio
Executive Director, CME Group Foundation
LGC Fellow since 2021
Timothy Knight
President and CEO, Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Daniel Burnham Fellow
John G. Palfrey
President, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Andrea Sáenz
President and CEO, The Chicago Community Trust
LGC Fellow since 2009
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Elizabeth “Beth” Swanson
CEO, A Better Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2006
Elizabeth “Liz” Thompson
President, Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group
LGC Fellow since 1991
HEALTH CARE
Ngozi Ezike
President and CEO, Sinai Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2011
Thomas Jackiewicz
President, University of Chicago Medical Center
Daniel Burnham Fellow
INSURANCE
Stephen Harris
President, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois
Daniel Burnham Fellow
LAW
Melissa Root
Chicago Office Managing Partner, Jenner & Block
LGC Fellow since 2015
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Jon Van Gorp
Chairman, Mayer Brown
LGC Fellow since 2005
Teresa Wilton Harmon
Co-Managing Partner, Chicago, Sidley Austin
Daniel Burnham Fellow
LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
Brett Hart
President, United Airlines
LGC Fellow since 2007
MEMBERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND CIVIC GROUPS
Maria Doughty
President and CEO, The Chicago Network
LGC Fellow since 2012
Derek Douglas
President, Civic Committee and the Commercial Club of Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2013
Arne Duncan
Managing Partner, Chicago CRED
LGC Fellow since 1995
Tiffany Hamel Johnson
President and CEO, Chicago United
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Myetie Hamilton
CEO, Leadership Greater Chicago
LGC Fellow since 2016
Sylvia Puente
President and CEO, Latino Policy Forum
LGC Fellow since 1997
REAL ESTATE
Michael Fassnacht
Chief Growth Officer and
President of the Chicagoland Region, Clayco
Daniel Burnham Fellow
John Latessa Jr.
President, Advisory and Transaction Services, CBRE
Daniel Burnham Fellow
SOCIAL SERVICES
Ricardo Estrada
President and CEO, Metropolitan Family Services
LGC Fellow since 2001
Katherine Maehr
Executive Director and CEO, Greater Chicago Food Depository
LGC Fellow since 2005
Jamal Malone
CEO, Ada S. McKinley Community Services
LGC Fellow since 2018
Karen Tamley
President and CEO, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
LGC Fellow since 1999
Daniel Burnham Fellow
TECH AND TELECOM
Brad Henderson
CEO, P33
LGC Fellow since 2012
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Matt Moog
CEO, Wavetable Studios
Daniel Burnham Fellow
Betsy Ziegler
CEO, 1871
Daniel Burnham Fellow