Dan Proft
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| Dan Proft | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | April 29, 1972 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Loyola University, Chicago |
Daniel K. "Dan" Proft (born April 29, 1972) is an American businessperson, writer, and radio talk show host.[1] He is a former Republican candidate for Governor in Illinois. He formerly hosted a radio show with WLS and currently is on-air with AM 560 The Answer in Chicago where he co-hosts the morning drive show from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday with Amy Jacobson.
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Early life
Proft was born in 1972 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and attended Benet Academy in Lisle. He graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. and Loyola University Chicago School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree. At Northwestern, Proft co-founded the Northwestern Chronicle, an independent campus newspaper.[2]
Professional life
Dan Proft co-hosts the morning drive show from 5 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday with Amy Jacobson on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago.[3]
From 2011 to 2015, Proft was a political commentator for WLS-AM 890 radio in Chicago. From 2014-2015, he shared a weekday show from 5 to 9 a.m. with Bruce Wolf. After his contract expired, he moved to AM 560 WIND. He has also appeared on Chicago television including ABC 7 Chicago and Fox Chicago and his commentary has been featured on national outlets including Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNBC.
Proft also works as a Senior Fellow at the Illinois Policy Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago. Proft serves on the boards of directors for the Disabled Patriot Fund, a nonprofit that provides assistance to Illinois military families; Freedom to Learn-Illinois, which provides private elementary school scholarships to disadvantaged children in Chicago; and Aid for Women, a Catholic pregnancy center in Chicago.[4][5][6]
Proft is a speaker and writer for the Illinois Opportunity Project, an organization that promotes free-market solutions. [7]
Proft also serves as the Chairman and Treasurer for Illinois Liberty Principles PAC, an independent expenditure, Super PAC organized "to make independent expenditures in support of liberty oriented policies and candidates."[8]
Prior to his campaign for Governor, Proft was a Republican consultant working on numerous political campaigns and served in various leadership capacities in state and municipal government. He was the spokesman for Cicero Town president Larry Dominick.[9][10]
2010 Illinois gubernatorial campaign
On June 23, 2009, Proft announced his candidacy for Governor of Illinois on the “Don Wade & Roma Show” on WLS (AM). Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The tagline of Proft's campaign was "Illinois isn't broken. It's fixed,"[11] signifying Illinois' government is set up to serve the politicians in power, not the people. His contracts with Cicero Town president Larry Dominick was an issue during the campaign. [12]
Proft called for "policy revolution"[13] to slice state personal and corporate income taxes in half and abolish the estate tax, to freeze spending and only allow it to increase based on inflation and population growth, and to implement a statewide opportunity scholarship program.
Proft earned 7.78% of the vote, coming in sixth in a seven-way Republican primary race.[14]
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