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Anonymous Foundation

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After School Matters

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John & Judy McCarter

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Polk Bros Foundation

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Voqal

 

$25,000-49,999

Allstate Insurance Company

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Chicago Department Of Family & Support Services

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Gary Comer Youth Center

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Illinois Humanities

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The Field Foundation Of Illinois

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$10,000-24,999

Bank Of America

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Communities United

J. R. Davis

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Fay Hartog-Levin

Meg & Bill Hayes

Illinois Arts Council Agency

Ingenuity

Leadership Greater Chicago

MHA Labs

National Endowment For The Arts

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Woods Fund of Chicago

 

$5,000-9,999

ABC 7 Chicago

Frank Bauer

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Of Illinois

Chicago Survivors

Council Of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

Cyrus & Mitzi Freidheim

Google

Carlton Guthrie

Hootenanny

Illinois YMCA Youth & Government

IMC Chicago Charitable Foundation

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Andrew Lerner & Maryam Banikarim

Anonymous Company

Public Health Institute Of Metropolitan Chicago

In Memory of Marlene Richman

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$2,500-4,999

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D3D Cinema

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Energy BBDO

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Sarah Harper Nobles

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David Reinisch, Inc.

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$1,000-2,499

Cameron Avery & Lynn Donaldson

Don Avila

Pete & Judy Bensinger

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Norman Bobins

Charles Bobrinskoy

Jim & Pam Brown

Jerome & Marie Caruso

Chicago Foundation For Education

Chicago Cultutral Mile Association

Chicago Wilderness

Steven Cohen

Lewis Collens

James Compton

Robert & Winnie Crawford

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Daily Planet

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Jon Desir

Janet Diederichs

Marsha & Phil Dowd

Ebert Foundation

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Essanay Studio and Lighting Company, Inc.

Harve Ferrill

Sally Fletcher

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Martha Gutierrez

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Darrick Hooker

Illinois Production Alliance

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Kurtis Productions

Lawrence Levy

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James & Kay Mabie

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Michael Moscow

Lester & Judy Munson

Michael & Nicki Nabasny

Kenneth Nebenzahl

Noisefloor

Nolo Digital Film Inc.

Nauman Noor

One Digital

William & Cathleen Osborn

Purcell Palmer

Nick & Linda Penniman

Judith Pepple Greffin

John Podjasek

Peter & Alicia Pond

Anne Pramaggiore

Debbie & Jeff Ross

Nadine Scully

Gordon & Carole Segal

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Prabha & Anita Sinha

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Dan Soles

Someoddpilot Inc.

Kurt & Helen Summers

Rachel Switzky

Liz Tate & Tim Knuth

The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation

The News Literacy Project

The Old Mountain Company Inc.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Wayne Whalen & Paula Wolff

Whitehouse Post Productions

Robert Wislow

Paul & Mary Yovovich

$500-999

John & Linda Anderson

Peter & Lucy Ascoli

Geoffrey Baer & Amelia Kohm

Stephen & Susan Baird

Christopher & Kristen Barker

Warren Batts

Tom & Kathy Bindley

Boston Consulting Group

Reid Brody

Dianne & Tom Campbell

Chicago Recording Company

David & Connie Coolidge

Critchell-Miller& Petrus

Jennifer Davidson

Skyler Dees

Filmworkers Club

Willard Fraumann

Keith & Rodney Goldstein

Joe Grossmann & Melissa Taylor

Walter Humann

Robert & Sharon Jordan

Judd & Leah Kohn

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Gabrielle Lyon

Media Process Educational Films

Withrow Meeker

Richard & Barbara Metzler

Jack & Louise Mills

Newton & Josephine Minow

John Mjoseth

MK Films

Motion Picture Studio Mechanics-Local 476

Clare Muñana

Lawrence & Inez Okrent

 

$500-999 (CONT.)

Paul and Mary Finnegan

PBS NewsHour

Prue & Frank Beidler

Quriosity Productions

Jenn Rockey

Kati Rooney & James Hennessey

Roosevelt University

Paul & Bettylu Saltzman

Olivia Scully

Christina Shaver

Michelle Stohlmeyer Russell

Studio 41

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The Keller Family Foundation

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Walter and Shirley Massey

Mark Welch

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Mark Zeboski

$250-499

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Todd Hieggelke

Rachel Hoge

Edward & Jeannine James

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Maguy Maccario-Doyle

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Jeremy McCarter

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Mix Kitchen

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Heidi Rudolph

SAG-AFTRA

Mike Schield

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Margarita Shabazz

Scott Siegel

William Siskel

Craig Snider

Stan & Ann Goldblatt

Neele & Bonnie Stearns

The Colonie

Melissa Thornley

Dorothea Tobin

Daniel Toft

Scott Turow

Montel V. Williams

Katie Wrobel

$100-249

Danny Alpert

Asia Ashley

BAM Studios

Chris Batte

Ashley Battle

Nilima Bhat

Jennifer Bluford

Carroll Bogert

Joyce Bottum

Andy Brown

Judith Bryan

Willard Bunn III

Larry Burse

John & Jane Chapman

Stephani Cook

Ty Cooper

Jonathan Copulsky

Tosha Downey

Paul Durica

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David Eisenman

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Ryan Griffin-Stegink

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Kal Hassan

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J'mme Love

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Amy McIntyre

Salvador Mendoza

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Raphael Nash

Network For Good

Rachel Niewoehner

Virginia & Thomas Noyes

Bill & Penny Obenshain

Diana Palomar

Phoenix Pact

Jaime Powers

Priehl Foundation

Gordon Quinn

Ben & Ginevra Ranney

Wendy Raymer

Reel Chicago

Tricia Rennicke

Sendhil Revuluri

Blanca Rios

Nancy Robinson

Darren Sanders

Dan & Julie Schmidt

Marily & Spike Schonthal

 

$100-249 (CONT.)

Carmita Semaan

Jeff & Liz Sharp

Pam & Tom Sheffield

Alexander Shermansong

Chris & Suzie Shoup

Judy Siskel

Betsy Steinberg

Melissa Sterne

STORY

Kevin Sutton

Megan Sweas

Scott Takeda

Melissa Taylor

The Retirement Research Foundation

Sophia Twichell

Marsie Wallach

Joel Weisman

Westside Productions

Adam Wiebe

Lewis Williams

Maria Xerogianes & Tim White

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Dorothy Andries

Natalee Arteaga

Peggy Austin

Esther Barron

Mallory Bell

Greg Boozell

Beth Casey

Chelsea Corbin

Jeff Daniel

Stephanie Daniels

Anne Dawson

Jeanine Donner

Christine Dudley

Lesley Etherly

Sylvia Ewing

Mike Falevits

Tom Finks

BJ Galvin

Patricia Garza

Bridget Gibbons

Laura & Matt Gomez-Mesquita

Elliot Heilman

Darryl Holliday

Andrew Huff

Philip Hummer

Deylon Jeffries

 

John & Ursula Rooney

Steven Jones

Adam Kriticos

Warrn & Marcia Kunstler

David Lane

Kim & Guillaume Le Mezo

Gina Leone

Melanie Lindsey

André Lodrée

Surita Mansukhani

Gracie McGarrigle

Spes Mekus

Ashley Mills

Mark Murray

Dan Neumann

Rich Newman

Peter Norman

Pallavi Pandey

Adriane Piehl

Rachel Pikelny

Barbara and Radoje Popovic

Christy Prahl

Rose Razal

Roderick Reed

Courtney Rennicke

Chris Rhudy

Chad Rispalje

Elena Robinson

Lauren Roth

Bria & Phalon Royal

Andrea Saenz

Eric Scholl

Eliot Schreiber

Bruce & Margaret Sents

Ed Siskel

Colleen Stockmann

Nicole Strickland

Sandra Suminski

Christopher Summers

Keri Tate

Eileen Taylor

Nikki Thomas

Leslie Thomas

Christy Uchida

Asheley Van Ness

Sharon Walker

Arlene White

Beth Winer

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