[3] McKenna and Patrick Ryan, chairman of Aon together owned 19.7% of the Chicago Bears.
[4] McKenna owned Schwarz Supply Source Inc, a Morton Grove-based paper company, which is a supplier to McDonald's, "making him something less than totally independent", according to Crain's Chicago Business.
McKenna married Mary Joan Pickett on June 20, 1953, and they had five daughters and two sons.
His son Andrew J. McKenna Jr. is a former chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.
[5] McKenna was inducted as a laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2000 in the area of Social Services.