Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
BPI advocates informative public policy goals for the greater Chicagoland area, along with providing information on events and news in this area.

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning protects natural resources and minimizes traffic congestion in the Chicago seven-county region through transportation and land-use planning.

Chicago Urban League
Established in 1916, the mission of the Chicago Urban League is to eliminate racial discrimination and segregation and to work for the achievement of equal opportunity and parity for African Americans, other minorities and the poor in every phase of American life. Today the League's work is focused in three primary areas: education, economic development and community empowerment.

Conservation Foundation
The Conservation Foundation is a not-for-profit land and watershed protection organization working to enhance the quality of life by preserving open space, protecting natural lands, and improving rivers and watersheds. The Conservation Foundation works in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties.

International Council of Shopping Centers
Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. The principle aims of ICSC are to advance the development of the shopping center industry and to establish the individual shopping center as a major institution in the community through: promoting the role of shopping centers in the marketing of consumer goods and services; establishing codes of fair business ethics and dealings with retailers and consumers and with government and public agencies; and encouraging research into the architecture and design of shopping centers.

Kane County
Kane County, one of the six collar counties in the Chicago region, is home to both concentrated development and some of the best farmland in the state. Kane County's 2020 Land Resource Management Plan, adopted in 1996, has been cited nationally for principles that provide a proper balance between natural resource protection and community and economic development.

Metropolitan Planning Council
Nonprofit, nonpartisan group of business and civic leaders committed to serving the public interest through the promotion and implementation of sensible planning and development policies necessary for a world-class Chicago region.

Northwest Municipal Conference
The NWMC provides a means by which geographically related municipalities and townships in the area north and northwest of Chicago may cooperate together in public interest on matters of mutual concern.

Openlands
Openlands is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing public open space in northeastern Illinois. Openlands bridges political boundaries and builds consensus on open space goals and regional growth strategies.

Regional Transportation Authority
The RTA is a special purpose unit of local government and a municipal corporation of the state of Illinois. The RTA's mission is to ensure financially sound, comprehensive and coordinated public transportation for northeastern Illinois.

South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
The South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association is organized to provide a means by which geographically related municipalities in the area south of Chicago could cooperate, explore and recommend solutions to common municipal problems, develop and administer and/or foster intergovernmental programs on a voluntary basis, develop a common voice on municipal positions in the Southern Suburbs and to communicate these positions as a single voice, to provide general governmental assistance to member municipalities and to improve the economic climate and quality-of-life in the Southern Suburbs and the entire metropolitan region.

Urban Land Institute-Chicago District Council
ULI Chicago, a District Council of the Urban Land Institute, has more than 1,000 members in the Chicagoland area who come together to find solutions and build consensus around land use and development challenges. The Urban Land Institute’s mission is to improve land use and the built environment. Simply speaking, ULI engages in real state issues that affect where we live and work. We solve problems as a team of experts without bias or prejudice.