Alex L. Goldfayn

Steve Ciolino really wanted that Ping sand wedge listed on eBay. So the attorney and CPA, who specializes in the administration of trusts, did what most of us do: He...

At large companies like Chicago-based Mesirow Financial, which employs about 1,000 in 28 U.S. locations, phone systems are like computers. In its four Chicago-area offices, for example, Mesirow uses a...

Since 2001, there have been more than 700 pieces of art, mostly crayon and colored pencil, posted by 325 artists from Murray Language Academy, an elementary school in Chicago. Hinsdale's...

Sunday's LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon boasts 40,000 runners, about 10 times the number of participants, or 4,200, that ran in the first Chicago marathon in 1977. And while the race...

At Palatine's Quest Academy, a school for gifted children, students range from pre-schoolers to 8th graders. To be accepted at the school, applicants need to score 125 or higher on...

On "football Sunday," David Welles and about 10 of his buddies gather at his house to watch NFL games. All of them. Welles has a six-pack of high-definition televisions set...

Mark Harris Chief information officer Prairie Farms Carlinville, Ill. Even when computers became commonplace, delivery drivers for dairy producer Prairie Farms still wrote up orders with pen on paper. "The...

Between his job, a side business and his online hobby, Joe Griffin wears a lot of hats. But all of them have to do with producing sound. At various levels...

While waiting for his flight to Los Angeles last month at O'Hare International Airport's Admirals Club, the American Airlines lounge for frequent fliers, Richard Green bought a pair of custom-made...

Melissa Bean spent a career in the high-tech industry before turning her efforts to politics. So when the Barrington resident was elected to Congress last year to represent the 8th...