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Advisory Committee

​​​​​​​​​​The MDRN Advisory Committee members collaborate with the Chaddick Institute in assessing plans and topics for events and projects. The members have also volunteered their professional skills and experience to present topics and facilitate discussion at Network meetings. The Committee has recently formalized to represent a diverse range of Chicago area municipalities and seeks to include various forms of design review and geographic and cultural diversity.

The current members are:

Consuelo Andrade Arguilles, Committee Chair
City of Addison, IL

Consuelo, who has over 15 years of planning experience in local government, is the Assistant Community Development Director for the City of Addison. Previously, she served as Assistant Community Development Director for the City of Warrenville. Consuelo has also held municipal development-focused positions for the City of Rockford, the Village of Mount Prospect, and the Village of Villa Park. Consuelo holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago, respectively.

Jeff Brady, AICP
Village of Glenview, IL

Jeff is the Director of Planning/Deputy Director of Development responsible for providing recommendations on technical matters to Boards and Commissions and assists in administering and coordinating Development Department policies. Jeff was the primary planner for the award-winning Glenview Naval Air Station redevelopment, directed arterial corridor studies, contributed to significant Appearance Code updates, and oversaw downtown revitalization efforts that led to one of the first form-based codes in the Chicagoland area. He holds a Master of Urban Planning and Policy degree from UIC and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University.​​​​

Ryan Franklin, AICP
Village of Schaumburg, IL

Ryan is the Assistant Director of Community Development and Planning Manager for the Village of Schaumburg.  Ryan has been with the Village of Schaumburg since 2016.  Prior to 2016, Ryan was the Community Development Director for the Village of Matteson. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, he also has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Alabama A&M University.

Clara Gable, AICP
Village of Lake Bluff

Clara is the Assistant to the Village Administrator at the Village of Lake Bluff and serves on the APA-IL Professional Development Committee. She previously worked as a Senior Planner at the Village of Gurnee. Clara graduated from Hofstra University with a triple major in Political Science, Geography, and Sustainability Studies before earning a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield.​

Michael S. Garrigan, AICP
​Village of Antioch​

Michael S. Garrigan has been the Community Development Director with the Village of Antioch since 2016. He previously worked with the Village of Plainfield as Planning Director for 15 years. Mr. Garrigan received his Master of Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago and holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is an accredited member of the Congress of New Urbanism.

Diane Gormely-Barnes, FAICP, LEED AP, ENV SP

Diane has 30+ years of planning and design consulting experience and serves as the Planning & Urban Design section manager at HNTB. Diane's projects have ranged from corridor, downtown, and transit-oriented plans, to design guidelines and development standards. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rice University and a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves on the board of the Chicago Region Chapter of Lambda Alpha International and is a Planning and Zoning Commissioner in the Village of Indian Head Park, Illinois.

John Hedrick, JD
Attorney/Consultant

John is a Senior Fellow to Chaddick and the founder and Co-Chair of the Municipal Design Review Network. A licensed attorney, John specializes in business and government matters and has been involved in municipal planning issues for over 25 years. John was Chair of the Glenview Appearance Commission and has served on various planning Committees for the Village.  He is active with various land use professional groups, including publications; and is currently focusing on suburban Downtown development organizations. He has his law and finance degrees from U of I Champaign-Urbana. 

Kate Portillo, AICP
Village of Skokie 

Kate Portillo, AICP, is currently the Planning Manager in Skokie where she oversees growth, progress, and good municipal design. With an education origin story beginning with Recreation Administration, Kate has a background in social service work, youth programs, and later in retail management. In the last decade, she has pivoted to Urban Planning with a focus on municipal government. Her experience includes corridor and comprehensive planning, land use regulation and the zoning entitlement process, redevelopment, and adaptive reuse projects, and delivering great customer service.​

For further information regarding the Advisory Committee, or selection criteria, please contact John Hedrick at mdrn@depaul.edu.  ​​

Friends of the Municipal Design Review Network

We are grateful for these professionals who serve as Friends of the Municipal Design Review Network, serving our collaboration in ways other than Advisory Committee activities. We list their name and affiliations below. 

Andy Cross, AICP
Lakota Group

Liz Delevitt, Registered Architect
Village of Deerfield, IL

Emily A. Egan, AICP
Village of Oak Park​, IL

Tom Farace, AICP
Village of Carol Stream, IL

Scott Magnum, AICP 
City of Evanston, IL

Dudley Onderdonk, FAICP, LEED-AP, CNU-A
Planning Consultant, Commissioner

Stan Popovich, AICP
Village of Downers Grove, IL

Stephen Robles, AICP
Village of Wheeling, IL