The headline speakers of the event will be the Alter Grouppresident Michael Alter, who will be the speaker for RealShareUp-Close, and the Prime Group Inc. chairman and CEO MichaelReschke, who will be the speaker for Inside the Real Estate Mind,moderated by Real Estate Media vice president Michael Desiato. Theimpact of the capital markets and the liquidity crunch will be "thedominant theme of RealShare Chicago to try to give people an ideaof when things in the market might turn and what the real marketrealities will look like when that does happen," Kelley says.Richard Blum, EVP and CFO of Fifield Cos., and David Friedman,managing director of fund management for Wrightwood Capital, willoffer "Two Views of the Capital Markets Conundrum," and will givetheir perspectives on the market and the outlook for the markets.The town hall meeting will be back again this year, with a group ofpanelists discussing the state of the Chicago market.

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