Harris: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps
Daniel O'Neil is one of the founders of Everyblock. The now shuttered hyperlocal news website was among the first to exhume government data sets — reams of building permits, for...
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Daley, investment firm offer cities advice on cost-saving upgrades
Former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his investment firm Tur Partners have started another company, The Sustainability Exchange, to advise cities on how best to squeeze savings out of infrastructure...
Daley, investment firm offer cities advice on cost-saving upgrades
Former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his investment firm Tur Partners have started another company, The Sustainability Exchange, to advise cities on how best to squeeze savings out of infrastructure...
Chicago Confidential: Google certain to make cold-storage building cool
Less than a year ago, refrigerated rooms that once stored meat for distributors and pork traders in the brick warehouse at 1000 W. Fulton Market were overgrown with stalactites and...
Google to move to West Loop
Google plans move its Chicago office to the Fulton Market-area of the West Loop starting in 2016, Jim Lecinski, the head of the company's Chicago office and its vice president...
Harris: Network, net worth can be built on passions, author writes
Take out a pen and write down the three things you're most passionate about — no more than one or two words each. Mine are journalism, technology and watching plays....
Chicago Confidential: Chamber’s chief-in-waiting doing little waiting
Theresa Mintle doesn't officially take over as chief executive of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce until Aug. 5. But operating with the same frenetic energy as her former boss, Mayor...
Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's...
Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's...
Citadel’s Kenneth Griffin exposes ‘cronyism,’ causes a stir at Economic Club
Citadel LLC founder Kenneth Griffin named and shamed local corporations that have taken tax incentives from the financially strapped state in a speech to a prominent Chicago business group. "The...