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Mayor Lightfoot Addresses the Future of Chicago

During a fireside chat at the Economist’s Innovation Summit 2020, City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot discussed the future of the city, including the opportunities and challenges to transforming…

This is How Women are Really Faring in Chicago Tech

Amanda Lannert belongs to an exclusive club. Along with Kristi Ross of online investment company Tastytrade and Daphne Preuss of bio-agriculture company Chromatin, she is among a trio of female…

Ascent’s Founder Wants to Help Finance Leaders Sleep Better at Night

For small businesses in highly scrutinized industries like financial services, keeping up with regulatory requirements can be a full-time job — and then some. Ascent, a Chicago-based regulatory technology company…

Living the Silicon Valley Dream. In Chicago.

I’m from California. I love sunshine, hiking trails and blueberries in the winter. So in late 2015, when my company, Tovala, was accepted into Y Combinator after two years of…

Chicago’s Next Tech Boom: The Maker Entrepreneur

At the University of Chicago-affiliated Polsky Fab Lab, assistant director Elizabeth Koprucki actually finds incoming students often already have experience with maker spaces. It can even be a selling point…

Machine Learning Summit to Unite Futuristic Tech-makers with Investors

Inventors, major companies and venture capitalists will unite next week for the first Chicago Machine Learning Venture Capital Summit. Representatives from Google, IBM Watson, Microsoft and some of Chicago’s top…

Air Quality Tracker for Chicago to Roll Out City-Wide

A city-wide network of sensors, dubbed a fitness tracker for a city, is being installed in Chicago. The Array of Things will monitor a variety of data from local climate,…

Tech CEOs Join Emanuel for U of I Trip

Mayor Rahm Emanuel went back to Urbana-Champaign with executives from about 20 Chicago tech companies today to pitch the school's smart, young techies at the University of Illinois on what…

How UIUC Is Seeding a Chicago Tech Network of Founders & Investors

Although it’s 135 miles away, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is responsible for developing the most entrepreneur alumni in the greater Chicago area. LinkedIn data showed as much earlier…

Tech Leaders Say Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Could Hurt Startups, Workers

If President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his anti-immigration stance, it won’t save American jobs, say leaders of Chicago’s tech startup sector. Worse, the businesses that depend on high-skill technical…

8 Fall Internships That Can Help You Break into Chicago’s Tech and Startup Worlds

College and university students will be heading back to school in the coming weeks, but it's not too late to line up an amazing internship opportunity at one of Chicago's…

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