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Sandra Guy biography

Sandra Guy, a 28-year veteran journalist, has covered business, politics, education, technology and peace issues, and served as a former president of the Chicago chapter …

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  • Not heating the neighborhood

    Energy efficiency is out-performing glacially slow bank lending and home buying to provide jobs and more livable rental housing in South and West Side neighborhoods, as Chicago’s Energy Savers program is proving. The Chicago-based program is enabling landlords to invest in building upgrades that cut …Read More

  • Not heating the neighborhood

    Energy efficiency is out-performing glacially slow bank lending and home buying to provide jobs and more livable rental housing in South and West Side neighborhoods, as Chicago’s Energy Savers program is proving. The Chicago-based program is enabling landlords to invest in building upgrades that cut …Read More

    • Online banking made safer

    Chicago’s tech community is helping develop solutions to protect online and mobile banking customers from hackers, phishers, cyberthieves, QR code fraudsters and a seemingly endless supply of criminals looking to steal people’s identities. The problem is so big, some experts believe 39 percent of all …

    Endless possibilities at Geneca

    Mark Hattas sees his success developing a custom-software company as an opportunity to explore the kinds of touchy, feely stuff that many businesspeople try mightily to avoid, even in the midst of Easter and Passover — self-forgiveness, living in abundance and pursuing one’s purpose in …

    Mastering tee times online

    Three brothers who run their family’s construction equipment business are aiming to reinvent what critics consider a flawed business model for golfers to book tee-times online. The Robertsons — Glenn, Struan and Brent, whose father, Alastair, founded Universal Equipment in Glen Ellyn — are launching …

    Local company playing key role in adding Internet domains

    A Chicago company, JAS Global Advisors, is playing a key behind-the-scenes role in an unprecedented expansion of Internet domain names — the web’s equivalent of real-estate addresses dominated by .com, .gov, .org and .edu.

    Vision to ease chronic illness

    A Chicago State University “Entrepreneurial Idol” contest revealed a new frontier of remote medicine intended to make patient care easier and quicker than ever before. The winner of the Business School contest, Sherrod Woods, a LeClaire Courts neighborhood native and an electrical engineer with 20 …

    Tech tool helps with the details

    Chealon Shears’ passion for cooking finds its delectable fulfillment in her detailed notekeeping, and not just with any old paper. Shears, a part-time personal chef who gives cooking lessons and hosts occasional parties at her North Side home, juggles her iPhone with what’s called the …

  • Two-pronged job-search strategy

    Kiel Henry spent two months working with a recruiter and applying online for jobs at more than 50 companies before he landed a systems administrator position at SingleHop, a fast-growing Chicago data center and web-hosting company. Henry, a 29-year-old Batavia native, took advantage of an …Read More

  • Dealing with deal websites

    Silhouette artist Carter Kustera, whose work can be seen at Barney’s Co-op stores and in Jonathan Adler’s home-décor boutiques, will offer a coupon for a custom silhouette in celebrities’ “swag bags” at this weekend’s Oscar Awards ceremonies in Hollywood. He is also working to license …Read More

  • ‘Girly girl’ gets down, dirty to hunt fossils in Sahara

    Chatham native Kaitlin Judkins concedes she was a “girly girl” cheerleader who hated getting dirty or skinning her knee before she found “Project Exploration,” a Chicago non-profit that dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno started so city kids could learn about science in outdoor archeological digs.

  • Music Box Films on home front

    The Music Box Theatre in Lake View is establishing itself as a distributor of best-selling independent films, and is using social media and home-entertainment outlets to expand its empire. The film distribution business — Music Box Films — rakes in five to 10 times the …Read More

  • Out-of-this-world auto design at 2012 Auto Show

    Visitors to the Chicago Auto Show will see the results of car designs that start with engineers using the same motion-capture and three-dimensional (3-D) technologies as Hollywood filmmakers use to create dramatic scenes like one in which apes attack motorists on the Golden Gate Bridge …Read More

    • Treatment for medical bills

    Kevin Kent, a 30-year-old entrepreneur looking to invent a next-generation baby monitor, negotiates with his doctor so he can afford the regular checkups he needs to regulate his diabetes. He recently paid $275 for a physical exam and lab work that would have cost more …

    Treatment for medical bills

    Kevin Kent, a 30-year-old entrepreneur looking to invent a next-generation baby monitor, negotiates with his doctor so he can afford the regular checkups he needs to regulate his diabetes. He recently paid $275 for a physical exam and lab work that would have cost more …

    An ‘African-American Groupon’

    Christopher Nolen, an independent film director and producer, enjoys using Groupon coupons to get half-off deals at restaurants. So when he found out about a new deals website dedicated to black-owned businesses, he signed up. “This is the African-American community’s Groupon — it’s a great …

    Cold texting with the right touch

    Chicagoans who must brave the cold to wait for a bus or train now have a home-grown solution to tapping their smartphones, iPads and other electronic devices without taking off their gloves. Brian Shy, a 29-year-old Ukrainian Village resident, has invented “digits” — mini conductive …

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