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Byline: Sheila Burt, Michelle Evans and Matthew Carmichael How did we find them? Crain's began seeking applications in January 2010. We also scoured our lists of public and private companies [...]

Byline: MICHELLE EVANS In the downturn, the biggest challenge facing meeting planners is delivering a compelling event on a tight budget. But right after the budget concerns comes something less [...]

Byline: Michelle Evans We don't use a computer program or apply a strict set of criteria to tell us Who's Who. There's also no formal nominating or lobbying process. To [...]

Byline: Michelle Evans No. 10 Robert W. Baird & Co. More than 40% of the company's employees own shares in Baird. 'When people are owners, they behave differently, CEO Paul [...]

Byline: Michelle Evans No. 5 Chubb Corp. Last summer, Chubb's Chicago office started an employee satisfaction initiative called 'Be the Change. The name plays on Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, 'Be [...]

Byline: Michelle Evans No. 14 Hyatt Regency Chicago General Manager Patrick Donelly says the hotel's motto of showing 'authentic hospitality goes for both guests and employees. When employees relocate, they [...]

Tom Gimbel 37 President, CEO LaSalle Network Chicago Tom Gimbel never thought working hard would put him out of work. A few years after college, Mr. Gimbel joined an upstart [...]

Profiles by Anna-Louise Jackson, Sandra Swanson, Matt Carmichael and Michelle Evans 1 BLUESTAR ENERGY SERVICES INC., CHICAGO 2008 revenue: $193.3 million Five-year growth: 12,917% Profitable? Yes Local employees: 33 Worldwide [...]

Business travelers require seamless WiFi connections, a knowledgeable concierge and top-notch meeting facilities to get the job done. But how do their employersthe ones paying the billsdetermine the best business-travel [...]

So, who's the face behind that suit? Year in and year out, Crain's seeks to identify the individuals who are shaping Chicago. Individuals like Patrick G. Ryan, former executive chairman [...]

#1 SEARS Then Sears Roebuck & Co. Revenue: $17.8 billion Now #2 Sears Holdings Corp. Revenue: $53.0 billion Led by then-Chairman Edward R. Telling, Sears Roebuck & Co. made a [...]

Why it's a best place to work: No one quit his job at Wrightwood Capital last year. And, in a Crain's survey of employees, most said they would be there [...]

Why it's a best place to work: ThoughtWorks employees don't live in cube farms or toil away in corner offices. A consultant is as likely to sit next to a [...]

Why it's a best place to work: Had it not been for Weber Shandwick, Janna Porrevecchio says she never would have experienced her Sicilian heritage firsthand. Each year, the Chicago [...]

Why it's a best place to work: Sam Tinaglia, a principal at William Blair & Co., was recently hired to advise a company through a $100-million acquisition. The reason: stability. [...]

Why it's a best place to work: Cecelia Bolden was handed the reins as soon as she walked through the door at System Development Integration Inc. The Chicago-based firm hired [...]

In the last 30 years, chief information officers have moved from the computer room to the executive suite. Crain's asked Mark Jeffery, director of technology initiatives and senior lecturer at [...]

Alex Vetter knows he will never top his first job. After college, he traveled with a team of U.S. lacrosse all-stars, playing exhibition games across Europe and coaching teams in [...]

Lisa Moeller is no Bob Hope. As president and chief operating officer of the USO of Illinois, her goal for the non-profit organization is to meet the needs of military [...]

Two-thirds of the largest companies in the Chicago area are based in the suburbs. For their executives, entertaining clients doesn't necessarily involve a reverse commute to Wrigley Field or the [...]

Standing in an aisle at a Walgreens, Steven Lauer had a decision to make. Pay full price for Scope's liter of mouthwash or save a buck with the store's own [...]

In his former life as an auto dealership owner, Patrick O'Rahilly relied on mass-market advertising like television and radio commercials to attract customers to his car lots. The problem was [...]

As a college student at Southern Illinois University, Mike Domek prided himself on knowing how to score the most coveted concert tickets in Chicago. So, in 1991, when he ran [...]

Before Disney's Epcot Center became a showcase for innovation, Shell Vacations LLC was pioneering a new concept called time shares, and building them down the street. 'There was talk about [...]

While the Hancock settlement was arguably the highest-profile case of the year (below), it was by no means the only interesting item on the dockets. Crain's surveyed 2006's Illinois court [...]

Health care had a big year in the Chicago mergers and acquisitions market, posting three of the top 10 deals. The number of deals grew to 35 from 30 the [...]

1 Sam Zell sells A PRIVATE-EQUITY BLOWOUT In the blockbuster buyout of the year, Sam Zell agreed to sell his office-building empire to Blackstone Group, a private-equity firm that has [...]

In 2006, mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. rose to $1.6 trillion, nearing the record set in 2000, during the peak of the dot-com boom. Here's how they fit into [...]

So you want a cushy place to watch your favorite sports team-besides your living-room couch? Maybe some beer, a few brats and a tray of mahi mahi wraps? Look no [...]