Five years, $2 billion, one goal: building on Chicago's strengths
With food for thought and a celebratory dinner, on April 12 the University's Board of Trustees launched "The Chicago Initiative," the largest fund-raising effort in the University's history-and among the most ambitious campaigns in the history of higher education. In announcing the five-year, $2 billion capital campaign at a Bartlett Dining Commons event attended by 525 Chicago alumni and friends, Board of Trustees chair Edgar D. Jannotta noted that in a two-year "quiet" phase, early supporters had already committed $702 million to the effort-surpassing the $676.2 million raised during Chicago's last five-year capital campaign, completed in July 1996.

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Five years, $2 billion, one goal: building on Chicago's strengths
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