Good evening. Happy wednesday. How is everyone feeling . Great. Happy friday. Just making sure you guys are paying attention. Welcome. My name is megan, new executive director of chicago ideas and having been born and raised in this amazing city and now raising my own family just down the street in the south loop i feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anyone else feel that way . [applause] it makes me even prouder to now be a part of this fantastic city team who works each and every day to challenge our city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about deep curiosity and pursuing connectivity so in that spirit, who does not love a good friday night a speaker, id like you to take a moment to turn to the person you dont know and introduce yourself and share why youre here tonight and share what you are most trusted source of political news might be. It might be a little bit of an oxymoron so i will give you 60