Chair& Master Rick Waddell
of Ceremonies: President & CEO, Northern Trust
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eboo Patel
Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Core
Eboo Patel is founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicagobased institution building the global interfaith youth movement. He was recently appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He writes “The Faith Divide,” a featured blog on religion for The Washington Post and has also written for the Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times of India and National Public Radio. Eboo has spoken at the TED Conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and at universities around the world. He is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world; was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America; was chosen by Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch; and was named one of America’s Best Leaders 2009 by U.S. News and World Report. He will be a featured speaker in a three-part 30 Good Minutes series “One God” to be broadcast February 14, 21 and 28, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. on WTTW 11.
EBOO PATEL PRAYER BREAKFAST VIDEO PART I (4:48)
EBOO PATEL PRAYER BREAKFAST VIDEO PART II (6:39)
Blessing for the Food: Mike Ivers
Goodcity Chicago
Music: Elmhurst College Saxophone Quartet
Nick Martin, Julie Fischer, Julianna Karvelius, Sean Cunningham
Directed by Professor Roger Birkland
“Wapango” by Paquito D’Rivera
Opening Prayer: Zaher Sahloul, M. D.
Chair, The Council of Islamic
Organizations of Greater Chicago
Spoken Word: Interfaith Youth Core
IFYC PRAYER BREAKFAST VIDEO (2:56)
Mayor's Remarks: Richard M. Daley Mayor, City of Chicago
MAYOR DALEY PRAYER BREAKFAST COMMENTS (9:54
Prayer for Those in Connie L. Lindsey
Public Service: Executive Vice President, Northern Trust
Closing Prayer: Richard S. Hirschhaut Executive Director, Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center
Music: Elmhurst College Saxophone Quartet
“Suite Hellenique” by Pedro Ituralde Valse-Kritis
