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"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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