2004 - Illinois Senate Race - Indepth Profile of Jim Oberweis

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Jim Oberweis

The Oberweis name is familiar to many in Illinois, especially from upstate, who have purchased the family’s dairy products. Jim Oberweis is chairman of the Oberweis Dairy board as well as president of a high-end financial service business that manages its own line of mutual funds. Oberweis is well-educated (University of Illinois and University of Chicago) and confident.

Mr. Oberweis has an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Oberweis has five children, ranging in age from 31 to 20. Mr. Oberweis started his financial career in 1970 with a large retail brokerage firm. Today Jim is President of Oberweis Asset Management and the Oberweis Funds and Chairman of the Board of Oberweis Dairy, a family business.

In 1997, along with his son Jim and other partners, he started Oberweis.net, Inc., an on-line trading and full service stock brokerage firm.