Visionary ($10,000 and up)

• Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wing

Benefactor ($5,000 and up)

• The Boeing Company
• Arie & Ida Crown Memorial
• Art and Rita Sussman
• Kay Torshen Foundation 

Sponsor ($2,500 and up)

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
• Deborah and David Epstein
• Alton B. Harris and Andrea S. Kramer
• Ruzicka & Associates, Ltd.

Patron ($1500 and up)

• The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
• Tom Kallen
• Bob and Lynn Lipman
• Harriet Meyer
• National Museum of Mexican Art
• The Takiff Family Foundation
• Kristina A. Valaitis

Supporter ($750)

• Susan Eleuterio

• Maria Finitzo and Anton Valukas

• Stuart and Claudia Flack
• Ruth Horwich
• Greg and Carol Koos
• Eileen R. Mackevich and Stanley Balzekas II
• Elise Mackevich and Fred Salchli
• Anita Nagler

• Polk Bros. Foundation

• Gayl S. Pyatt
• Bettylu and Paul Saltzman
• Joan and James Shapiro
• Mrs. Paul Simon
• Don and Marge Sveen
• Nancy Tom
• Willard White

Friend

• ABC-7 Chicago
• Sharon Alter
• Arabella Advisors
• Walter L. Arnstein
• Grace Barry
• Frank and Prue Beidler
• Kathy L. Berger and Louis C. Schorsch
• Matti Bunzl
• Jacqueline Carpenter
• Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture
• Libby L. Chiu

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Cizon

• Judy and Bill Cottle
• Barbara Flynn Currie
• Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta

• G. Cullom Davis

• Phoebe Stein Davis
• Michael Dorf

• Edna Selan Epstein

• Judith L. Everson

• Feitler Family Fund
• Denise B. Gardner

• Joan B. Gottschall

• Jerome Grand
• Kathryn M. Harris

• Jerome J. Hausman

• Rusty and Samuel Hellman
• Patricia Hickey
• Leona Hoelting, Oakton Community College
• Doris B. Holleb

• Diana Hunter
• Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim

• Falona Joy

• Mary E. Keefe and Robert P. Scales

• Gary and Valerie Koch
• Nancy Kotler

• Carol Rosofsky Lifton and Robert R. Lifton  

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Mayer
• Jeannie M. Morris
• Henry J. Nord
• Ann Oleinik
• Gordon Quinn and Meg Gerken
• The Raven Foundation
• Irene Sherr and Leigh Breslau

• Kenneth W. Sikkers
• Rebecca Sive
• Merrill H. Smith

• Samantha Smith
• Jennifer Amdur Spitz
• Nancy A. Stevenson

• Carl & Marilyn Thoma

• Erma Tranter, Friends of the Parks
• The Honorable George Van Dusen
• Bernice Weissbourd

• Tia K. Williams
• Terese S. Zimmer, University of Chicago Urban Education Institute

Special Thanks

• Special thanks to our public funders: The Illinois Arts Council (Shirley Madigan, Chairman), the Illinois General Assembly, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Special thanks to HarperCollins Publishers and Northwestern University Press for their generous donation of books for each table.

Benefit Luncheon Committee 

Deborah Epstein and Arthur M. Sussman
Event Co-Chairs

Mayor Richard M. Daley
Honorary Event Chair

Host Committee

• Nora Moreno Cargie
• Tolbert Chisum
• James S. Crown
• Deborah and David Epstein
• Alton B. Harris and Andrea S. Kramer
• Tony Ruzicka
• Art and Rita Sussman
• Kay Torshen
• Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wing

Benefit Committee

• Peter and Lucy Ascoli

• Susan Eleuterio

• Maria Finitzo and Anton Valukas
• Sunny Fischer
• Stuart and Claudia Flack
• Ruth Horwich
• Tom Kallen
• Greg and Carol Koos
• Bob and Lynn Lipman
• Eileen R. Mackevich and Stanley Balzekas II
• Elise Mackevich and Fred Salchli

• Harriet Meyer

• Anita Nagler
• Gayl S. Pyatt
• Lizzy Takiff Scheinfeld
• Joan and James Shapiro
• Mrs. Paul Simon
• Don and Marge Sveen
• Nancy Tom
• Carlos Tortolero
• Kristina A. Valaitis
• Willard White