This is a package of six feature stories about minority-owned businesses in Chicago, written for the Focus section. Breaking out of the niche Crain’s Chicago Business. November 24, 2008. James Cabrera had a choice to make. “There were only two ways to go in my business,” says the president of United Building Maintenance Inc., which [...]
This profile appeared in the annual “40 Under 40″ issue of the Focus section of Crain’s Chicago Business. 35 President, Spaan Technology Inc. Smita Shah is a self-proclaimed math geek. As a fifth-grader in west suburban Willowbrook, she sat with friends in the back of class converting word problems into algebraic equations. “I was such [...]
Crain’s Chicago Business. September 29, 2008. Olympics expert Ed Hula is the editor and founder of AroundTheRings.com, a Web site that provides news and information about the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. In a Crain’s video interview, he analyzes the pros and cons of each host city candidate for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games: Tokyo, [...]
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