EXHIBIT 24.1

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Billy D. Prim and Mark Castaneda as his or her
true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, to act, without the other, for him or her and in his or her
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-
8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or any of them, or their substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on June 17, 1999.



          Signature                                    Title
          ---------                                    -----
                                 
/s/ Billy D. Prim                   President and Chairman of the Board
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Billy D. Prim


/s/ Mark Castaneda                  Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
- -----------------------------       (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
Mark Castaneda


/s/ Andrew J. Filipowski            Vice Chairman of the Board
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Andrew J. Filipowski


/s/ Craig J. Duchossois             Director
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Craig J. Duchossois


/s/ Steven D. Devick                Director
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Steven D. Devick


/s/ Richard A. Brenner              Director
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Richard A. Brenner


/s/ John H. Muehlstein              Director
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John H. Muehlstein