Previous Member News Coverage

2017

• Crockett Cookies (December 5, 2017): CPS butter cookies: You can still find the classics years after they disappeared in Chicago Tribune
• Vintage Place Settings (November 25, 2017): These Tableware Concepts Promise to Make Stylish Dinner Parties Easy in Vogue
• Modern Sprout (July 1, 2017): 17 Made-In-America Gifts We Love on Oprah.com
• Meliora Cleaning Products (June 27, 2017): Kate and Mike of Meliora Cleaning Products on WCIU's You & Me
• Metric Coffee (June 6, 2017): Feels Like Home: The Story of Chicago's Metric Coffee in Sprudge
• Federal Moto (May 5, 2017): Motorcycle Shop Turns Rundown Vintage Rides Into 'Rolling Works of Art' in DNAinfo Chicago
• TGIN (May 2, 2017): Cancer Survivor Chris-Tia Donaldson: "Being A CEO Saved My Life" in Huffington Post
• TGIN (April 28, 2017): 8 entrepreneurs who scaled and lived to tell the tale in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​Meliora Cleaning Products (April 19, 2017): Business Is Booming For Soap Company Started By A Couple In Their Home in DNAinfo Chicago
  
• ​Farmer's Fridge (April 18, 2017): Farmer's Fridge will expand its salad vending machines regionally in Chicago Tribune
  
• ​Passion House Coffee Roasters (April 13, 2017): Coffee Mocktails and Fat Rice Pastries Coming With New Logan Square Cafe's Friday Opening in Eater Chicago
  
• ​Spirit Tea (March 24, 2017): And Now: Artisanal Tea in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• Real Good Juice Co. (March 13, 2017): Real Good Juice, Now Open On Southport Corridor, Eyes Lakeview Whole Foods in DNAinfo Chicago
  
• ​Metric Coffee (March 6, 2017): 9 Hottest Coffee Shops in Chicago in Zagat
  
• Stock Manufacturing Co. and Suki + Solaine (February 23, 2017): American-made companies worried about proposed border tax in Chicago Tribune

2016

• AllSet (November 7, 2016): How renting my place on Airbnb helps me travel the world in Chicago Tribune
  
• ​Metric Coffee (October 11, 2016): Metric Coffee's West Fulton Market Cafe Raises the Bar on Beans in Zagat
  
• ​TGIN (September 29, 2016): How this Oracle lawyer created her own line of natural hair care products in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​Let Them Eat Candles (June 8, 2016): ​Who knew edible candles could be such a hit? in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​TGIN (April 28, 2016): How two scrappy Chicago beauty companies are nailing international expansion in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​Adam Siegel (April 25, 2016): A Behind-The-Curtain Look at Chicago's Buzziest, Most Mysterious Pop-Up in Food and Wine
  
• ​Beastgrip (April 12, 2016): Beastgrip expands into UK and Japanese markets, announces plans for high quality lenses from Kenko Tokina in DP Review
  
• ​Beastgrip (April 8, 2016): Beastgrip Pro in Photography Blog
  
• ​​Rhine Hall (February 16, 2016): The Best Distilleries in Chicago Right Now in Liquor.com

2015

• Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine (December 2015 / January 2016): European style on the shores of Lake Michigan in The Gourmet Retailer
  
• ​Crockett Cookies (September 19, 2015): As packaged-food manufacturing changes, startups are standing out in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​Spicemode (September 18, 2015): Spicemode: Indian inspired sauces, but that’s just the beginning in Food Navigator-USA
  
• ​Shoe Drop (August 8, 2015): These guys want to bring shoe repair into the 21st century in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• ​Haven Home Staging and Redesign (July 13, 2015): Best Home Stager in Chicago Magazine
  
• ​Aloft Loft (May 12, 2015): Circus training program in Chicago one of largest in U.S. on WGN
  
• ​Rags of Honor (April 11, 2015): Chicago company employs only veterans, shows how work is a mission in the Chicago Tribune
  
• ​Rhine Hall (April 8, 2015): Behind the Brand: Rhine Hall in Foxtail & Moss.
  
• ​Metric Coffee (April 6, 2015): Metric Coffee of Chicago: Roasting In An Incubator in Sprudge
  
• Rags of Honor (March 2, 2015): Chicago Stories: Mark Doyle on My Fox Chicago ​​
  
• ​1570 Cinema Services (February 12, 2015): New in Chicago in Crain's Chicago Business

2014

• Solstice Art Source (December 29, 2014): Stained glass opened the window to Emily Carlson's artistic ambitions in the Chicago Tribune
  
• ​Scout Alarm (December 3, 2014): Scout alarms, the stylish security system, hit market after delay in the Chicago Tribune
  
• ​Rhine Hall (August 6, 2014): Rhine Hall Distillery: Schnapps for Chicago in the Chicago Reader
  
• ​Jarvis Corp. (July 12, 2014): A safe space for businesses that make noise at 3 a.m. in in Crain's Chicago Business
  
• DropCatch (October 1, 2014): How cleaning up after a college party inspired an idea that sticks in the Chicago Tribune           ​