American Dream Dinner Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Art Institute of Chicago
The 2012 American Dream Dinner featured Chicago Cubs’ Chairman Tom Ricketts who highlighted the importance of economic and financial literacy education for young students. Ricketts introduced his presentation with a rousing Chicago Cubs video and, following his speech, presented special Cubs prizes to three fifth grade students from Spring Brook Elementary School in Naperville who all won national recognition in The Stock Market Game™ InvestWrite essay contest.
The theme for the
2012 American Dream Dinner Event, The Art
of Dollars and Sense, showcased Econ Illinois programs combining art and
economics. Read about the Economics Poster Contest.
Keynote Speaker:
Tom Ricketts
Chairman, Chicago Cubs
Chairman, Incapital
2012 American Dream Committee
Janet Angstadt, Chair
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Karen Bourbulas
Northern Trust
Nancy Hendrickson
Hendrickson Law Firm
Hazel King
H.A. King & Associates, Inc.
Amy Kinney
DRW Trading Group
David L. Kohn
Union League Club of Chicago
Maureen Lagan
Deloitte
Gabe Martinez
Wells Fargo Advisors
Peggy Murphy
Advantage Futures
Margaret Nagle
Wolverine Execution Services
Pamela C. Piarowski, CPA
BMO Harris Bank N.A.
Kristin Wood
CME Group
Pam Zielezinski
NYSE Euronext
Joanne Dempsey
Econ Illinois
American Dream is an event of Econ Illinois - Illinois Council on Economic Education, a 501(c)3 affiliated with the Council for Economic Education and located at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Contact at 815.753.0356 or icee@niu.edu.