OCTOBER 16, 2000
COVER STORY

What They're Saying about Their Kind of Town


"There is great uncertainty right now. We don't know exactly what the Board of Trade is going to do" -- PATRICK ARBOR, Former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade

"Chicago is in decline, a continued slow decline" -- GEORGE KAUFMAN, Professor, Loyola University

"Chicago will continue to have a critical mass of traders. They may not sit in the same place, they may not stand in the same place" -- JAMES McNULTY, President and CEO, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

"Our city made the wrong bet. Now the Chicago funds are puttering along at meaningful, but unimpressive levels" -- JOHN REKENTHALER, Research Director, Morningstar Inc.

"The way the exchanges address the technological revolution is probably our biggest issue" -- WILLIAM BRODSKY, President, Chicago Board Options Exchange

"Having three separate exchanges in Chicago is absolutely silly" -- ROBERT HAMADA, Dean of Univ. of Chicago Graduate School of Business

"Chicago's financial power in the banking area has been seriously impaired" -- NORMAN BOBINS, President and CEO of LaSalle Bank



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