February 9, 2004

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORS UIC'S CITY AND CORPORATE PARTNERS
Bill Burton, (312) 996-2269, burton@uic.edu

The University of Illinois Alumni Association is honoring three
individuals and a corporation for their service to the University of
Illinois at Chicago and its Great Cities Commitment, UIC's engagement
with local and global communities to address urban challenges.

Urban developers Patrick Daly and James Lemonides and blues impresario
Lenin "Doc" Pellegrino will receive the UIC City Partner Award,
established in 1993 to recognize alumni efforts in support of UIC's
Great Cities Commitment or in outstanding service to UIC itself.

This year the alumni association also created the UIC Corporate Partner
Award to honor corporations that have had a significant impact on UIC
students and alumni. The first award will be presented to the Allstate
Corporation.

All the awards will be presented at the UIC City Partner Dinner and
Awards Ceremony Feb. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in the Illinois Rooms at UIC's
Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted St.

Daly, who received degrees in architectural design and history from the
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts in 1972, is the founder,
chairman and CEO of the Daly Group LLC, a Chicago-based real estate
development, management and construction firm, which operates in
Illinois and 25 other states.

Daly has placed an emphasis on creating high-quality developments that
meet with local community needs and expectations. In several cases, he
has successfully designed, constructed and managed retail centers in
economically underdeveloped areas, helping to revitalize local
economies.

A strong supporter of UIC and the College of Architecture and the Arts,
Daly has served as chairman of the Chancellor's Corporate Advisory
Board, chairman of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, and
is a director emeritus of the University of Illinois Foundation. In
1998, he received the University of Illinois Achievement Award.

In addition to his UIC and alumni association efforts, Daly
participates in a wide range of civic, community and nonprofit
organizations. He has served as vice chairman of the Metropolitan Pier
and Exposition Authority, the entity that oversaw the expansion of
McCormick Place and the renovation of Navy Pier, and as a commissioner
of the National Advisory on Work-based Learning. Currently, he is on
the board of directors of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF/Chicago, and is
a trustee for the Fund For American Studies, the Chicago Academy of
Sciences and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Lemonides, who received his master's degree in urban planning and
policy from the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs in
1977, is CEO of the Greater North-Pulaski Development Corporation. In
that role, he has worked since 1981 to help stem the loss of
manufacturing jobs and industrial plants from Chicago's Northwest side.

Under his leadership, Greater North-Pulaski changed its focus from
retail-strip revitalization to industrial retention, development and
advocacy. It became the first industrial-based retention program funded
by the city of Chicago and has served as the model for other industrial
corridors throughout the city. Other urban industrial centers, such as
Pittsburgh and Cleveland, have instituted similar programs after
consulting with Lemonides and Greater North-Pulaski.

Greater North-Pulaski has fought for industrial land preservation and
has instituted worker-placement, English as a second language for
Hispanic immigrants, and youth programs. The organization also helps as
many as 300 individuals consider startup enterprises or prepare their
business plans annually.

Pellegrino, who received his medical degree from UIC in 1953, is a
retired physician and the owner of the Kingston Mines Blues Center.

After being discharged from Army after World War II, Pellegrino entered
the UIC College of Medicine with the goal of becoming a general
practitioner serving the disadvantaged. He later opened a clinic in
Lawndale, one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, and went on to become
chief of staff at the Walther Memorial Hospital.

Pellegrino was an active participant in the civil rights movement in
the 1960s, marching in Oak Park and Cicero.

When he opened Kingston Mines in the late '60s as a sideline business,
he was the first club owner in Chicago to ban the use of alcohol as a
form of compensation for musicians. Because of his concerns about the
health and well-being of musicians and artists, he has allowed Kingston
Mines to be used as a venue to raise funds for the Health and the Arts
program, an initiative of the UIC School of Public Health devoted to
the treatment and prevention of arts-related disorders among those
working in the arts.

UIC and Allstate have worked together on a range of student, academic
and research programs. A major recruiter of UIC business administration
students, Allstate participates in the College of Business
Administration's "Intern for a Day" program and has provided
scholarships to needy and deserving CBA undergraduates. The company has
partnered with UIC to deliver an onsite MBA program at its Northbrook
campus and serves on the Dean's Business Advisory Council, the
Department Advisory Board and the University of Illinois Center for
Human Resource leadership team. Most recently, Allstate became a
charter member of the CBA's Insurance Center Initiative, a pilot
program that will offer insurance-related courses to UIC students.

For more information on the UIC City Partner Dinner and Awards
Ceremony, visit www.uiaa.org/chicago, call (312) 998-8535 or e-mail
alumni@uic.edu

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