Dan Proft is an entrepreneur, editorial contributor to the Chicago Tribune, former Republican candidate for Governor, and a radio talk show host formerly with WLS and now with AM 560 The Answer in Chicago where he co-hosts the morning drive show, Chicago's Morning Answer,5-9am Monday-Friday with Amy Jacobson.
Proft works as a Senior Fellow at the Illinois Policy Institute, a free market think tank in Chicago. Proft also runs one of Illinois' largest Independent Expenditure PACs, Liberty Principles PAC, which supports candidates committed to the economic liberty policy agenda for state and local offices.
Proft earned his BA from Northwestern University and his JD from Loyola University-Chicago School of Law.