Crain's Chicago Business articles from June 2004

Crain's Chicago Business archives from June 2004

Ellen Carnahan, Sona Wang, Michelle Collins; 48 Managing director, William Blair Capital Partners LLC45 General partner, Inroads Capital Partners44 Managing director, Svoboda Collins LLC.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STEVEN R. STRAHLER Ellen Carnahan, a member of the University of Notre Dame's second class to admit women, says, "I got used to being an outlier.'' It certainly prepared her for the persistently male-dominated worlds of venture...

Lisa Madigan; 37 Illinois attorney general.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: GREG HINZ No, she insists with her best poker face, she's not thinking about running for governor some day. "I have a better job.'' Perhaps so. But Lisa Madigan used to insist she was perfectly happy being a state senator,...

Lois Weisberg; 79 Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ANNE MOORE "Lois is far from being the most important or the most powerful person in Chicago,'' wrote Malcolm Gladwell in the Jan. 11, 1999, issue of the New Yorker. "But if you connect all the dots that constitute the vast...

Margaret Kirk; 55 CEO, Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MARGARET LITTMAN When Margaret Kirk took the helm of the 25-year-old Y-Me in July 2001, it was in the red, and day-to-day operations were held together with "bubble gum and paper clips,'' according to Jane Perlmutter, a Y-Me board...

Let's subsidize clear skies, not soybeans and cotton.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Howard A. Learner A quirk in international trade agreements could allow the United States to continue to lavish cash on farmers while also boosting alternative energy and other environment-friendly projects. The 2002 federal...

Ikram Goldman; 36 Owner, Ikram.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: LISA BERTAGNOLI Ikram Goldman is influential in certain circles-specifically, among those who'd like an Alexander McQueen luncheon suit with a marabou skirt, and would pay $2,650 for it. With its tiny sign and windows...

JUDY BIGGERT, 66, JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY, 60; Representative, Illinois 13th District, U.S. House of RepresentativesRepresentative, Illinois 9th District, U.S. House of Representatives.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PAUL MERRION Judy Biggert and Janice Schakowsky are gaining influence in Congress-but not with each other. "She's not someone I lobby,'' says Rep. Schakowsky, a liberal Evanston Democrat. "I wish I could'' sway her, says...

The future arrives for Jefferson Park; Rosalva Escobedo spied opportunity in Jefferson Park's lack of fancy coffee shops.(Real Estate)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KEVIN DAVIS In the year since she opened Nana's Coffee and More near the corner of Milwaukee and Lawrence avenues, she's done well selling espresso and panini sandwiches in the Northwest Side neighborhood known more for pierogis...

Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite; 55 President Chicago Theological Seminary.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ANNE MOORE Sidelined on a ski vacation last winter by a broken foot-a high-heel injury, no skis involved-Susan Thistlethwaite settled in at a Vail eatery to while away some time. She started chatting with a few people nearby....

Linda Wolf; 56 CEO, Leo Burnett Worldwide.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JAMES B. ARNDORFER When Linda Wolf was promoted to CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide in 2001, she became the first woman to run the iconic Chicago advertising agency-and one of the few to run an international agency anywhere. Ms....

Margaret Blackshere; 63 President, Illinois AFL-CIO.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PAUL MERRION Margaret Blackshere would have had clout these days anyway. The 1-million-member organization she's headed for the last four years is on the upswing with Springfield in the grip of Democrats. But she urged other...

Carrie J. Hightman; 46 President, SBC Illinois.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KATHRYN PETERSON As head of $3.7-billion-revenues SBC Illinois, Carrie Hightman oversees 21,000 employees, and she helped the telecom company make the big leap into the long-distance phone market. Since then, her biggest battle has...

Brenda C. Barnes; 50 Incoming president, chief operating officer, Sara Lee Corp.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KATHRYN PETERSON Brenda Barnes raised eyebrows in 1998 when she quit her $2-million-a-year job as head of PepsiCo Inc.'s North America beverage business to spend more time with her three sons. At the time, she was one of the...

Gemma B. Allen; 55 Co-head, Ladden & Allen Chtd.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MARGARET LITTMAN Gemma Allen has earned a reputation as the city's most respected-and feared-divorce lawyer. She handled her first divorce case as a favor to her mother's best friend. But she had a knack for it, and quickly...

Pioneers vs rising stars; Generation gap: Gender issues? Gen Xers say, "Get over it." Boomers say, "We blazed a trail for these ingrates?" The disconnect can corrode relationships.(100 Most Influential Women)(Design Studio 303 Inc)
June 7, 2004... Byline: CHRISTINA LE BEAU It's a theme heard time and again in offices throughout the city. Boomer women say Gen Xers expect too much; younger women say boomers don't realize that times have changed. Though most will tell you it...

Andrea Redmond; 48 Managing director and co-head, CEO/board services practice, Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON People forget that Jamie Dimon wasn't the safest bet when Andrea Redmond recruited him to the CEO post at Chicago's Bank One Corp. in 2000. While highly regarded on Wall Street, Mr. Dimon rubbed some Bank One...

Time to take a fresh look at O'Hare expansion plan.(Opinion)( O'Hare International Airport )(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... While the airline industry changes, Chicago's plan to expand O'Hare International Airport stays the same. Conceived amid the pre-Sept. 11 travel boom and resting on the shaky pillars of United Airlines and American Airlines, the...

Dorothy Gaters; 57 Girls' basketball coach, John Marshall Metropolitan High School.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PATRICK Z. McGAVIN In 1974, Dorothy Gaters got a job nobody else at John Marshall Metropolitan High School wanted: starting a girls' basketball program at the West Side school. Her record since: a winning percentage of nearly...

Carol Levenson; 52 President, director of research, Gimme Credit Publications Inc.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: H. LEE MURPHY In the staid world of corporate bond research, Carol Levenson is variously described as a gadfly, feisty, a contrarian. Also funny. Her no-holds-barred commentary, issued daily via e-mail, has been poking holes in...

Bronzeville teacher aces Oprah 101.(100 Most Influential Women; Valentina Gamboa-Turner)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SAMANTHA STAINBURN What's on "Oprah''? That's what Valentina Gamboa-Turner, a teacher at Young Women's Leadership Charter School in Bronzeville, asks her mother, a regular 4 p.m. viewer, each day after work. When it sounds...

Helen C. Lee; 65 President, Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, Owner, King Wah Restaurants.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KEVIN DAVIS If Chinatown had its own mayor, Helen Lee would be it. A force in this city-within-a-city for 30 years, Ms. Lee has created jobs for Chinese immigrants, helped expand the business base and invited outsiders to see...

Brenda Gaines; 54 Retired North American president, CEO, Diners Club International Ltd.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Last fall, when Brenda Gaines spoke at a Forbes CEO Forum in Virginia, all the women in the audience came up to speak with her afterward. All four of them, she chuckles. The lack of gender and ethnic...

Debi Lilly; 35 Owner, chief eventeur, A Perfect Event.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PATRICIA RICHARDSON On a recent afternoon, Debi Lilly is running late, and explains she's been held up at Harpo Studios. It turns out she's putting the finishing touches on a gift Oprah Winfrey is sending John Travolta. The...

At last! It's lunchtime in Millennium Park.(Dining/Restaurant Review)(Restaurant Review)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Black We're all curious about Millennium Park: Is it a triumph of outdoor modern art, Mayor Richard Daley's great green culture-palooza? Or a $475-million boondoggle? Inspect for yourself. Pick a nice summer day. Settle on...

Marilyn Miglin; 65 President, CEO, Marilyn Miglin L.P.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SANDRA SWANSON Unlike most customers at Marilyn Miglin's Oak Street cosmetics shop, the patients at the Center for Craniofacial Anomalies at the University of Illinois at Chicago aren't fretting over crow's feet or a few broken...

Vita Pascua; 64 Waitress, Rosebud.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MARK SCHEFFLER Every established eatery worth its salt shakers has one: a waitperson, usually a woman, so engaging, so welcoming, so darned well-wishing that regular patrons sigh contentedly when seated in the server's station. And...

Mary Zimmerman; 43 Director, writer.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: BRIAN McCORMICK When theater aficionados speak of revivals, they usually mean a new production of "Gypsy'' or "Death of a Salesman.'' Mary Zimmerman's revivals reach back through centuries. Source material ranges from Homer...

Janet Davison Rowley; 79 Professor of medicine, human genetics, molecular genetics and cell biology, University of Chicago, Member, President's Council on Bioethics.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN Janet Davison Rowley knew when she accepted President George W. Bush's invitation to join an 18-member advisory panel on biomedical ethics in 2001 that she might run into trouble. After decades as a cancer and...

Executive Moves.(People; appointments)
June 7, 2004... FINANCIAL SERVICES Laurie Bartholomew, 44, to senior vice-president and Chicago market manager for small business banking at Bank of America Corp., from banking center president and program manager of the small business unit at First...

West Loop: Condo cornucopia.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... One- and two-bedroom condos drove the housing boom in the West Loop for the past decade, but residents fear they could undermine it. Concerned that a condo-heavy market will weaken home values and force some residents to move elsewhere, the...

Bucktown*: Confining cottages.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Cute on the outside, Bucktown's 100-year-old workers' cottages can be cramped on the inside. Few have more than three small bedrooms and a bath-and-a-half. Small lots and low basement ceilings further dim their appeal to families. ...

Honorable mentions.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: DAWN PROCHNOW Guilt reflex? Perhaps. But here's a nod to 10 more high-profile women who, judging by the number of nominations and phone calls we received, are influential with readers: Deborah Bricker 52 Philanthropist ...

Patricia Mell; 50 Dean, John Marshall Law School.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: H. LEE MURPHY Patricia Mell has spent most of her first year as dean of John Marshall Law School traveling to places like New York, Los Angeles and Beijing. The purpose: building national and even international buzz for the...

Leslie Bodenstein; 39 Yoga enthusiast.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ANNE MOORE Leslie Bodenstein is not a teacher, but she attracts more people to yoga than just about any instructor. "When I hear someone say, `I'm feeling miserable,' I say, `Tell me about it.' '' Next stop: a Wicker Park yoga...

Margery Teller; 42 Eurodollar trader.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STEVEN R. STRAHLER A one-woman show in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Eurodollar pit, Margery Teller quit in mid-2002, stressed out from risking her own money against banks and other institutional traders. Because she...

Carol Ross Barney; 55 Co-founder, president, Ross Barney & Jankowski Architects.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: BRIAN McCORMICK Through Chicago school projects like Little Village Academy, the Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center and a major renovation of Carl Schurz High School, Carol Ross Barney has made her mark as an architect who...

Betsy D. Holden , Deborah DeHaas; 48 President, global marketing and category development, Kraft Foods Inc. 44 Regional managing partner, strategic client services Deloitte & Touche LLP.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: DAVID BERNSTEIN They're two of the highest-ranking women in corporate Chicago. Still, it's been a tough few years for sisters Deborah DeHaas and Betsy Holden. Ms. DeHaas was once the top audit partner in accounting giant...

Jane M. Byrne; 70 Former Chicago mayor.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Not long after Richard J. Daley's death, Jane Byrne did the unthinkable: She took on the Daley political machine and became the city's first female mayor in 1979. Her four-year term was tumultuous and memorable. Her successive bids for...

Bernardine Dohrn; 62 Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PATRICIA RICHARDSON Three decades ago, Bernardine Dohrn was a fugitive from the law. Now, she teaches it. "I have a notorious past, and at the age of 62, you should,'' she says. Once a member of the Weather Underground, a radical...

Diann Burns; 47 News anchor WBBM-TV/Channel 2.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN WBBM-TV/Channel 2's signature 10 p.m. newscast-the longtime laggard in the time slot-has seen a 22% increase in its audience since Diann Burns came on board in October. Demographic data show that the bulk of that...

Deborah R. Card; 47 President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN Deborah Card is one of the most influential figures in classical music. She knows it, too. "For the next two years, anytime I'm in a concert hall anywhere in the world, people will be wondering what it...

South Loop: Single-family shortage.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Longtime South Loop residents Mark and Molly O'Malley are in a bind. They love their neighborhood, but they can't find a bigger house nearby. The couple doubled the size of their condo by buying a neighboring unit and knocking down the...

Alison True; 42 Editor, Chicago Reader.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: LISA BERTAGNOLI "I don't have a public role; I'm not on TV,'' says Alison True. "But my paper gives people a lot to think about.'' The Chicago Reader provides a steady diet of long-form articles with a progressive slant, and...

Joyce Sloan; 73 Producer emeritus, Second City.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ROBERT JOHNSON When the stars of the biggest movie so far in 2004 hit Chicago to promote "Shrek 2'' in May, they called Joyce Sloan at Second City. She's mother hen to Mike Myers and countless other comic actors, and he wanted to...

From the Editor.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Ann Dwyer For this special issue, we stretched the definition of "influence,'' picking people whose influence has been felt in Chicago and beyond-like stage director Mary Zimmerman and Y-Me's Margaret Kirk-and people whose sphere...

Investor interest shores up Trizec; Shutting N.Y. operation drives down USF.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: H. LEE MURPHY Investors worried about rising interest rates took shelter in office building owner Trizec Properties Inc. last month. Shares of the Chicago-based real estate investment trust (REIT) rose 15% in May, to $16.51....

Karen Benson; 46 Firefighter/paramedic, Elk Grove Village Fire Department.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: BOB TITA Karen Benson will never be one of the boys. But after nearly 24 years as an Elk Grove Village firefighter, she's proven it's not a job requirement. "We fight fires the same way,'' she says. The first female...

OfficeMax developing new life for ad character.(News)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JAMES B. ARNDORFER Crain News Service OfficeMax is trying to turn its "Rubberband Man'' character-the Afro-sporting office-supply guy who tosses toner and towels to co-workers while dancing to the tune of the 1970s Spinners hit...

Linda Johnson Rice; 46 President, CEO, Johnson Publishing Co.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KATHRYN PETERSON Last year, Linda Johnson Rice, head of the world's biggest black-owned publishing company, told her staff that Ebony magazine needed a face-lift-sleek celebrity covers and sexy headlines. "People rolled their eyes...

Gambling foes ruffle raffle biz; Charity contests often flout state laws, critics say.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KRISTINA BUCHTHAL Anti-gambling activists are taking on charity raffles, charging that the high-stakes contests are forms of gambling that often don't follow the law. Their efforts have forced one of the area's...

Brenda Sexton; 49 Managing director, Illinois Film Office.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MARK SCHEFFLER The odds were against Brenda Sexton in April 2003 when she was named to lead the demoralized Illinois Film Office. Since 2001, 18 films "set'' in Chicago were filmed in Canada. And with $25 million in revenues-down...

Mary Ann McMorrow; 74 Chief justice Illinois Supreme Court.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STEVEN R. STRAHLER Mary Ann McMorrow's career has been a series of "firsts''-first woman elected to the Illinois Supreme Court, in 1992, and, since 2002, chief justice. In 1997, she wrote the court's majority opinion that...

The Future.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Clara I. Magdaleon 18 Senior, Clemente Community Academy High School When a friend complained recently that classwork was getting the best of him, Clara Magdaleon lent a sympathetic ear-but only for a moment. Then, she prodded him to...

Mary Anne Brown, Margaret Fleming; 59 Executive director Hephzibah Children's Assn. 67 Founder, director Adoption-Link Inc. and Chances by Choice.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MICHELE DONLEY "Mary Anne Brown is a cross between Mother Teresa and Vince Lombardi,'' declares Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy. Since 1976, Ms. Brown has headed Hephzibah Children's Assn., which provides local day care...

Donna V. Robertson; 52 Dean, College of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ALBY GALLUN A bold building program at Illinois Institute of Technology has generated buzz about Donna V. Robertson. She's not complaining, but her primary medium these days is people, not glass and steel. "Of course, the new...

Sara Paretsky; 56 Author.(100 Most Influential Women)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ROBERT SHAROFF Whodunit? More like shedunit. Over the last quarter-century, Sara Paretsky has published 11 detective novels, created a beloved heroine in the character of V. I. Warshawski and, in the process, become one of...

Mellody Hobson; 35 President, Ariel Capital Management LLC.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STEVE DANIELS Mellody Hobson could get used to the star treatment. She's a regular on ABC's "Good Morning America.'' She's been the subject of photo spreads in Working Woman and Vogue. She sits on some of the city's most...

Laurene von Klan; 45 Executive director, Friends of the Chicago River.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ALBY GALLUN Laurene von Klan wants to swim in the Chicago River-a nauseating thought for most Chicagoans. She's willing to wait until 2020. That's when she hopes the river will be clean enough to be officially declared fishable and...

Melody Spann-Cooper; 39 President, general manager WVON-AM.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON Melody Spann-Cooper's career in broadcasting began as punishment. These things happen when your father is Pervis "The Blues Man'' Spann: legendary radio announcer, concert promoter-he crowned Aretha Franklin the...

April Brazell; 48 Pro-abortion rights volunteer.(100 Most Influential Women)(Biography)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ANNE MOORE April Brazell's passions require a fortitude for Chicago weather: She leads architecture tours, loves going to Cubs games and stands outside abortion clinics helping steer women past protesters. A former financial...

Late News.(News)(Benn Greenspan)(United Air Lines Inc.)(Labor market)
June 7, 2004... JOB CONFIDENCE IMPROVING LOCALLY Chicagoans' confidence in the job market rose in May, while workers nationwide lost some faith in the job recovery, according to a survey by Hudson Highland Group Inc., a New York-based staffing services...

Time to get to work! Jobs up for biz grads; More offers, less stress in '04.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: MICHELLE M. MEYER The area's top business schools are about 10% ahead of last year's pace in placing graduates with employers, another welcome sign that the economic recovery-although in fits and starts-is producing jobs. ...

Mall town blues: Sales take a dip; Burbs' budgets hit by shoppers' changing habits.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SANDRA JONES Suburbs are feeling the pinch of declining sales tax revenues, as malls-once the crown jewels of their local economies-lose their drawing power with busy shoppers. Towns that are home to some of the area's largest...

O'Hare lags on new plane; Enormous jet demands equally pricey upgrades.(News)(O'Hare International Airport)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON Airbus' new jumbo passenger jet, slated to take to the skies in late 2006, may be late to land at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. O'Hare lags other U.S. airports, including those in Los Angeles, New...

Looking into Times mirror, does Tribune see itself? No, but maybe it should take a page from L.A.'s book.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN After Tribune Co.'s Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes in April, top editors at the Chicago Tribune-shut out for the second time in three years-shrugged. "There's been some Pulitzer-related discussion,...

A new low for fakes: shoe polish.(News)(Pell Inc.)
June 7, 2004... Byline: DOROTHY KRONICK Psssst! Wanna buy a Rolex? How about a Vuitton purse? A tin of Kiwi shoe polish? In a move from bogus luxury to fake mundane, counterfeiters are hawking brand-name printer cartridges, batteries and hand tools....

Redo's the easy part for Ebony; Glossier look hasn't translated into big circulation gains.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN A redesign and the demise of a key competitor haven't reversed the long circulation slide at Ebony magazine. Last summer, Johnson Publishing Co. CEO Linda Johnson Rice redesigned her firm's graying flagship. But...

Illinois Tool: Is there a wrench in the works?(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: BOB TITA A rapid rise in Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s shares raises questions about how much higher the company can climb. Investors returned to Illinois Tool Works (ITW) and other manufacturing stocks when a three-year downturn...

Mergers often a bad deal for states; Agency combos like the one guv's pushing rarely pay off.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SHRUTI DATE SINGH Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to merge four regulatory agencies into one and save $14 million a year sounds smart, but government consolidations often fail to deliver promised cost savings and improved service. ...

Retail sales not the stable tax stream they once were.(Opinion)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... This page spends a fair amount of time criticizing the way municipal officials do their jobs, but we also find ourselves at times feeling downright sorry for mayors, city managers and their colleagues. So many things that once seemed stable...

Nat'l telecom market blunts anti-competitive rap on ICC.(Opinion)(Illinois Commerce Commission)(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Philip R. O'Connor Crain's May 31 editorial, "Telcos should take their fight to the marketplace," is correct about the need to bring an end to the struggle between SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. and other competitive...

Homes without range; Like your neighborhood but need more space, maybe a yard? Finding what you want may be harder than you think.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PATRICIA RICHARDSON Housing availability isn't a problem for several city neighborhoods that rode to popularity on a wave of condo and townhouse construction. Variety is the sticking point, as residents ready to move up from...

Lincoln Square; Tight spaces.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Popular with first-time buyers, the three-bedroom frame homes found on most of Lincoln Square's blocks pose challenges for growing families. "I call it functional obsolescence," says Alexander Chaparro, who grew up in the neighborhood and...

Datebook.(Calendar/Datebook)(Calendar)
June 7, 2004... WEEK OF JUNE 7 JUNE 7: Executive Resources Network presents Alignment and Optimization of Business Functions After Sarbanes-Oxley. 6 p.m. Midwest Conference Center, 401 W. Lake St., Northlake. Fee: $25. (630) 546-9430. JUNE 7: Small...

Conventions.(Calendar/Datebook)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
June 7, 2004... WEEK OF JUNE 7 June 8-10: All Candy Expo, Lakeside Center, estimated attendance 18,000. June 9-11: Travel Inc., Pheasant Run Resort, estimated attendance 500. June 9-11: National Lawn and Garden, Donald E. Stephens Convention...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK.(Quotes)
June 7, 2004... A big win is usually what gets people involved in stuff like this. I call it 'the hook.' Gambling treatment specialist Cyndi Moriarity, on the addictive power of raffles PAGE 3

TOP STORY: Budget fight goes into OT.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Illinois lawmakers missed their deadline for passing a new state budget, plunging them into the unfamiliar territory of an overtime legislative session. The next key deadline for plugging a budget deficit of at least $2.3 billion is June 30....

Kay W. McCurdy; 53 Director, WBEZ Alliance Inc.; partner, Lord Bissell & Brook.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: KEVIN DAVIS Kay McCurdy never listened to public radio until a friend suggested she tune in to WBEZ-FM one day back in the mid-1980s. "I started listening, and I was dumbfounded by how good it was," she recalls. She wound...

Judy Baar Topinka; 60 Illinois treasurer.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: DOROTHY KRONICK Chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party. Highest-ranking-actually, only-Republican in statewide office. GOP fund-raiser. Inside favorite to be her party's nominee in the next race for governor. Judy Baar...

Christine L. Malcolm; 54 Senior vice-president of strategic planning, marketing and program development, Rush University Medical Center.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN Christine L. Malcolm is a bulldozer: She gets what she wants. She doesn't plan small. The $550-million renovation of Rush University Medical Center is a case in point. Her remake of the West Side medical campus...

Quotes.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... "Today, I see women in a greater diversity of positions. Women are considering more career options than they were 30 years ago." BRENDA GAINES 54, retired credit card executive. Profile on Page W58 "Historically, teaching was one of...

Jayne Carr Thompson; 58 President, CEO Jayne Thompson & Associates Ltd.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: PAUL MERRION Married to one of the most influential men in Illinois, it's hard to deny that Jayne Carr Thompson doesn't bask in some reflected glory. Clients of the public relations firm that bears her name tend to have...

Rev. Johnnie Colemon.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ANNE MOORE "I don't tell my age to anyone." Founder, minister, Christ Universal Temple It's Christian at its core, but the message the Rev. Johnnie Colemon has been preaching on the South Side for nearly 50 years is this: Get...

Virginia McCaskey; 81 Owner, Chicago Bears.(100 Most Influential Women)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: ROBERT JOHNSON Like many powerful people, Virginia McCaskey keeps a low profile. But for some fans of the perennially losing Chicago Bears, which she owns by inheritance, her profile isn't low enough. "The Bears need a...