Established by the Illinois state legislature in 1895, the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund (CTPF) manages over 94,000 members' assets and administers benefits totaling more than $1.6 billion annually. For over 125 years, CTPF has been committed to the financial security of teachers, principals, and administrators who serve or have served, the Chicago Public/Charter/Contract Schools. As the oldest public pension fund in Illinois, CTPF works to improve and safeguard members’ retirement and health benefits.

CIL is an international management consultancy with offices in the US and Europe. We help businesses grow, build value and invest wisely. We are rigorous in our approach, confident in our conclusions and expert at what we do. Founded in 1986, we have extensive experience helping businesses to identify and prioritise the best opportunities for growth. We approach our clients’ challenges with passion and energy, conducting exhaustive and tailored analysis, guided by deep industry expertise. Typical engagements involve extensive primary research, competitor assessment and evaluation of business performance. We focus on the key commercial issues and always maintain a strong, supportive client relationship.

SE3, LLC is a professional services company specialized in civil engineering. Our primary areas of expertise are within the fields of transportation and municipal engineering. SE3 is quickly becoming a leading professional services company in the civil engineering consultant industry. The core management team at SE3 collectively has over seventy years of planning, management, and design experience assisting our clients with their infrastructure projects. Our talented, highly trained team of professionals successfully delivers infrastructure projects in the areas of Planning, Design, Construction Management and Controls, and System Design and Deployment. Each member of our team is dedicated to our clients and follows the founding principles of our company - Integrity, Honesty, and Service. In 2004, Vernal Stewart decided to start his business in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Mr. Stewart’s goal was to set his company apart from other consulting agencies and civil engineering firms by providing the highest quality people to serve his clients. Vernal had a firm belief in people, and that people - more than anything else - build successful projects and lives. Following the successful launch of the company in 2004 and winning our first project later that year, we quickly expanded to other Midwest cities, opening offices in Illinois in 2005 and in Texas in 2007. Over the initial five years of the company’s history, we primarily provided services in the highly specialized area of Program Management - with great success - to the Tollway Agencies in Illinois and Texas. As of 2018, we have provided professional services in over ten states nationwide, from North Dakota to Texas to West Virginia. We are located in 7 offices across 4 states. We are a certified DBE/MBE company from the following agencies: IL UCP / INDOT / KDOT / MNDOT / Kansas City / MRCC / NCTRCA / MODOT / NDDOT / Ohio UCP / TXDOT / City of Wichita

OUR COMPANY Windy City Wire® has been leading the way in low-voltage wire innovations since 1994. As a company, we are dedicated to developing solutions that generate significant results for our customers. We provide comprehensive cable management solutions that save integrators time from concept to completion. OUR PRODUCTS All of our products are created with a commitment to excellence and are designed to fit customers’ needs. From our Smartwire® cables to our patented RackPack® Field Systems Solution, we offer real solutions to real issues faced in the field every day. OUR SYSTEMS We believe in investing heavily in the systems that drive our business and create a positive customer experience. Our eCommerce site with real-time, up-to-the minute access to product information, driven by our state-of-the-art bar code inventory management system is available 24-7 and is Smartphone friendly. It was the driving force behind our revolutionary and patented Smartwire System Design Tool® software, giving integrators the ability to design custom job plans and ultimately work more efficiently. OUR SERVICE We’ve made every effort to build Value-Added Services into all of our products and procedures, to ensure our customers are 100% satisfied with their service from Windy City Wire. Our customers are our top priority in everything that we do! OUR GUARANTEE We stand behind our products! Your success is our success.

For nearly 60 years, Trim-Rite Food Corporation has supplied top-quality, custom pork boning services to its many satisfied customers, worldwide. Our success is a result of more than using the highest quality meat products available, It's a company-wide dedication to serving our customers. We pride ourselves on delivering products to our customers’ exact specifications and providing the highest level of customer service.

At Storck, everything is about one thing only, and at all times: we create joy. Our employees are the basis for what has made Storck special for more than 100 years. We are therefore always looking for people with a wide range of diverse skills who share our passion and will grow with us; people who want to experience the advantages of working for an owner-managed family business. Welcome to Storck! Storck USA, L.P. is a business unit subsidiary of The Storck Group, headquartered in Germany. The Storck Group operates as a world wide business in over 20 countries, including the US and Canada in North America.

Continental strives to meet your industrial scrap paper recycling needs. Our team of experienced professionals will assist in servicing nearly any demand you have for scrap paper processing and/or brokerage, field rejected lots, or job lot and prime roll stock recycling. We specialize in program audit & management for manufacturer's in printing, envelope production, general conversion, and paper production. We strive to maximize the value of your scrap, and we pride ourselves on our long-standing mill relationships, which we foster in nearly every corner of the country and around the globe. Trading in over 100,000 short tons every month, we are constantly evolving to meet the changing demands of today's global paper industry. We operate a number of offices throughout the United States and Canada and two facilities in Chicago & York, Pennsylvania, and we are ready to bring our expertise in recycling and sustainability to your business.

C.J.W., Inc. is a full service beverage distributor serving Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth Counties in Southeastern Wisconsin.

Since 1965, Carlson has produced pure, quality, award-winning vitamins, minerals, omega-3s, and other nutritional supplements. Carlson launched at the forefront of the industry, offering the most complete line of natural-source vitamin E products in the world. We then paved the way, bringing fish oil and cod liver oil to the U.S. market. In 2009, we launched our EcoSmart line of marine oils, sourced from a sustainable species of calamari. And today, we’re proud to bring you more than 200 innovative formulas and supplements designed with your family’s unique nutritional needs in mind.

Norkol provides quality paper and packaging products to commercial printers, publishers, and catalogers both domestically and internationally. Since our inception Norkol has diversified to include Commercial Printing & Packaging, Industrial Packaging, Flexible Packaging, and Non-Wovens as target segments.

Chicago area Beer, Wine and Spirits Distributor Family owned and operated since our founding in 1979, Burke Beverage has grown into a company with over 100 employees and representing more than 50 suppliers across the beverage alcohol industry. Serving a portion of the Chicago-land area, Burke Beverage has grown and prospered by providing its customers with an ever expanding product offering, exceptional customer service, and innovative ideas.