List of Funders

This list reflects both current and past program sponorships. For more information on our funders or how to contribute to the Illinois Humanities Council, please call 312.422.5580.

Sponsors of Current Programs:

Southwest Airlines is the official airline of the Illinois Humanities Council.
Affinia Chicago Hotel is the preferred hotel partner of the Illinois Humanities Council.

 

Ask Me Why

  • The Boeing Company
  • WBEZ Chicago

Capitol Forum on America's Future

  • McCormick Foundation

Freedom Riders

  • The Field Foundation of Illinois
  • The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau

  • Illinois Arts Council
  • Illinois State Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare®

  • Prince Charitable Trusts

The Meaning of Service (MoS)

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The Odyssey Project

  • Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute, Northwestern University
  • Anonymous Donor
  • Bank One
  • Chicago Community Trust
  • Civic Knowledge Project, University of Chicago
  • Field Foundation of Illinois
  • Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
  • Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Polk Bros. Foundation
  • The Seabury Foundation
  • Bedford/St. Martin's Press
  • University of Chicago Press
  • WGN-TV Children's Charities

The Public Square

  • Civic Knowledge Project, University of Chicago
  • Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Race and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago
  • Illinois Arts Council
  • The Joyce Foundation
  • Lisa Lee
  • Woods Fund of Chicago

The (Un)Common Good

  • The Boeing Company
  • WBEZ Chicago

Sponsors of Former Programs:

All-Consuming: Conversations on Oil and Water

  • Motorola Foundation 
  • The Boeing Company
  • Illinois American Water

Art of Association: Building Towards Justice

  • Project on Civic Reflection at Valparaiso University

Brown v. Board 50 Years Later: Conversations on Integration, Race, and the Courts

  • Ariel Mutual Funds
  • Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
  • Bank One
  • The Boeing Company
  • Chicago Tribune Foundation
  • Robert A. Clifford and Clifford Law Offices, P.C.
  • Michael W. Coffield & Associates P.C.
  • Cooney & Conway
  • Corboy & Demetrio
  • The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
  • Duo Consulting
  • Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP
  • Exelon Corporation
  • Greene and Letts
  • Donald Hubert, Hubert & Fowler
  • Jenner & Block LLP
  • Jovon Broadcasting Corporation
  • Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
  • Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.
  • Polk Bros. Foundation
  • Power Rogers & Smith P.C.
  • Sara Lee Corporation
  • Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Shefsky & Froelich Ltd.
  • Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
  • Nikki and Fred Stein
  • Woods Fund of Chicago

Future Perfect: Conversations of the Meaning of the Genetics Revolution

  • The Boeing Company
  • Michael H. Reese Health Trust
  • Motorola Foundation

True Learning, True Teaching Summer Seminars

  • The Boeing Company