Melissa Harris

Chicago fashion designer Maria Pinto this week has launched her first clothing line since 2010. It's on Kickstarter, the crowd-funding website. "There's a lot of liberating elements to doing it...

Every year, founders of 10 startups pitch their businesses to a crowd of investors and peers at the House of Blues. The event is called Demo Day, the culmination of...

— Josh Dillon's sister nicknamed them "the nerd herd." That was back when Dillon and seven friends from Highland Park High School would lug their computers and monitors to their...

British drummer Martin Atkins came to Chicago to chase down a local concert promoter who owed his band $5,000 and wound up staying. So it should be no surprise that...

Eric Lefkofsky says he intends to be chief executive of Groupon for "a few years." His tenure will end, he said in an interview late Wednesday, when Chicago-based Groupon has...

Philanthropist Ann Lurie has replaced two of her top investment managers at her private investment firm, hiring Kristopher Wood, a private equity and mergers and acquisitions expert, as chief investment...