Covering Chicago's Emerging Businesses
Distance can’t stop a motivated teenager. A study by the Consortium of Chicago School Research (CCSR), shows that 80 percent of the children participating in Chicago’s…
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Two floors below the gleaming law office of Foley & Lardner, lies a work space called Catapult, where dozens of young people sit at tables…
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Troy Henikoff, executive director of Techstars Chicago, says it’s the little incremental things, added together, that create a top-notch tech accelerator. And, he’s looking…
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It’s that time of year when middle and high school students nationwide get busy building robots. Last Spring a team of Highland Park High…
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For the first time, in the six years of the Momentum Awards, three ground-floor startup companies were featured on the stage along with the…
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With the proliferation of emerging companies in Chicago, comes an array of programs teaching founders how to start a business. But not everyone wants…
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In the competitive, first-to-market, startup world, pitch sessions are often about who can catch the eye of the investor with the deepest pockets. But…
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Construction delays are just part of the mix, when you’re trying to build something big. For TechNexus, now in the process of finishing its…
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After growing up near Chicago, and then living in Hollywood for two decades, Jenny McCarthy returned to her Midwest roots and moved back to…
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Years before Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, created a business from his dorm room at Harvard, Sam Yagan, serial entrepreneur and current CEO of online…
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