Evanston bakery uses Kickstarter to fund city’s first ‘parklet’
Most local parks are measured in acres and paid for with municipal bonds. But the next public space in Evanston will be crowdfunded, and the easiest way to describe its...
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Outside Opinion: $15 minimum wage would hurt mom-and-pop businesses
Chicago aldermen have proposed gradually raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour, and then later increasing it according to the cost of living. And in November, Illinois voters...
Jellyvision’s Lannert, CEO of the Year, leads the way at Moxie Awards
Amanda Lannert of Jellyvision took home CEO of the Year honors at the Third Annual Moxie Awards at the Park West on Thursday night. Online food-ordering platform GrubHub, on the...
How a Chicago school is turning 8th-graders into active entrepreneurs
The eighth-graders at The Nettelhorst School in Lakeview didn't just talk about product design. They designed a product. And they didn't just talk about manufacturing or finance. They negotiated with...
Artist Tom Burtonwood, 3D printing enthusiast
You can go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and see the Head of a Bodhisattva, an eighth-century Tang dynasty Chinese sandstone sculpture. You can also look...
Techstars Chicago gives incoming companies an assignment with pop
They're highly vetted early startups looking to disrupt everything from e-commerce to Big Data to telephone service to test prep. Their first assignment as incoming class members at Techstars Chicago:...
Manicube lands in Chicago, offering in-office manicures
If New York-based in-office manicure startup Manicube was looking for validation for its Chicago launch this week, ad agency Leo Burnett seemed to offer it. Slots for two days of...
Chicago shoemaker sees ‘magic’ in what she makes
The milling room at the Mohop shoe factory used to be a dominatrix dungeon. CEO and founder Annie Mohaupt tosses out this information matter-of-factly — just another colorful detail in...
Allegory
Chad Schumacher's maker story — his Allegory — starts in late 2011. He and his wife, Jessica, had the life they wanted, and it didn't involve making much more than...
Allegory pens write a new chapter
Chad Schumacher's maker story — his Allegory — starts in late 2011. He and his wife, Jessica, had the life they wanted, and it didn't involve making much more than...