The emperor's daughter; Riding a crane, taking her family company global, hiking at 20,000 feet-it's all in a day's work for the surprisingly grounded Ivanka Trump.

Byline: Jonathan Van Meter

Ivanka Trump-tall, bosomy, husky-voiced-is standing right up at the edge of a floor-to-ceiling window on the twentieth floor of the IBM building in Chicago. She is looking out over the construction site of the Trump International Hotel & Tower, which is quickly climbing into the skyline on Wabash Avenue, just across the street. It is a weirdly warm and foggy December day, and so what would normally be a spectacular view of the river and the lake beyond it is all but washed out. Instead the eye is drawn to the giant crane on the top of the partially finished silvery-blue glass building before us-seventeen stories high and rising ...