media moguls robert mccormick and william s daly and athletes michael jordan and jackie during her cursory, authors ernest hemingway and edna ferber and today we produce 10% of our nations computer science. we graduate more engineers than mit, stanford and caltech combined. illinois grads have started youtube, oracle, ctw, paypal, tesla motors and so many more. this is where illinois comes from and these are the people on whose shoulders we stand to envision our future. this is the lofty vantage point from which we now look ahead. throughout our history illinois has been a magnet and if you want to till the soil, leah breck, build a building and make a deal supercomputer, you name it you can find work in illinois, afford a home and rely on the public schools to educate your children. today we have an opportunity to turn yesterday into tomorrow and make illinois the powerhouse job creator we should be. we can do it and we united last fall to bid for amazon second headquarters, governor, mayor, general assembly, city council, businesses and nonprofit, republicans and democrats, collaborated to compete for 1