Kristin Samuelson

Student loan debt isn't just a problem for newly minted graduates. A report released Wednesday by Barclays notes that 15.5 percent of outstanding student loan debt is owed by people...

If walls could talk, Jim Jacoby would listen. The founder and president of virtual design firm Manifest Digital has made it his goal to embody the "ghosts" of the former...

John Chipman saved his architecture firm during the recession by cutting his staff in half. To compensate, employees at Chipman Design Architecture, then in Park Ridge, started working 12- to...

In a hot-pink dress with a perfect blond bob, chic heels and blue eyes soaking up the view from her 24th-floor corner office in the John Hancock Center, Susan Howe...

When four brothers and their dad run an electronics and appliance store, anything's apt to happen. "I come in here some mornings, the door's shut, and I open it up...

At 4:30 a.m., six days a week, pipe fitter Joe Czochanski would pull his daughter Joan out of bed and ask her what she wanted to learn and accomplish that...

Who eats: Tourists, businesspeople and quite a few couples, including one on a first date. Why eat: A chic and relatively affordable spot to share izakaya-style cuisine (or Japanese tapas)...

Albert Karoll uses the closet in his Glenview home to store several dozen custom-made suits. But at work in Chicago, the owner of Richard Bennett Custom Tailors & Shirtmakers uses...

The management team at GoHealth thinks of its River North office as a recruitment tool. But not for actuaries or tech types. The health insurance portal, which helps consumers compare...

After years of declining employee engagement and emotional and intellectual involvement in the workplace, 2011 has seen a modest gain. According to Aon Hewitt's 2012 Trends in Global Employee Engagement...