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As you turn south off 95th Street at Cottage Grove, you might miss the farm on your left. Most farms, after all, don't look like abandoned shoe factories. That will...

TextPride, which makes branded stickers and emojis that mobile messaging apps can offer as paid upgrades, won top nationwide honors in Miller Lite's Tap the Future new-business pitch contest, announced...

Eight do-good-and-do-well startup companies, including one focused on moving surplus food to shelters and another focused on educating prisoners, made their pitches to more than 250 people, most of them...

The dusty floors and half-finished walls may not look like much. But TechNexus, the downtown incubator that brings entrepreneurs and corporate innovators together, is eyeing the soon-to-open new space as...

Who would have thought that the long-abandoned dance hall on the corner of 43rd Street and Calumet Avenue in the once-thriving neighborhood of Bronzeville might one day be saved with...

The typical Chicago pitch contest involves hopeful entrepreneurs trying to win the room over to the idea that they are, if not the next Groupon, at least the next GrubHub....

Entrepreneurs wear their failures like badges of honor, proof they've learned business start-up lessons the hard way. But few experience a defeat as helpful as David Chen's. His first business,...