Future shockers

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Ten up and coming entrepreneurs, politicians and professionals are profiled. Software programmer Edward LaHood is creating relatively inexpensive virtual reality systems. Valerie Jarrett is Chicago's new commissioner of planning and development.

Author: Crump, Joseph, Rattenbury, Jeanne
Officials and employees, Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, Businesswomen, Businessmen

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Crazy like a fox

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Marks-Bronner is the new general manager of WFLD-TV in Chicago, IL, and she is trying to rejuvenate the station's news programming. She has hired executives from Fox Television to help her produce a new nightly newscast and a morning program.

Author: Rattenbury, Jeanne
Management, Television broadcasting of news, Television news, WFLD-TV (Chicago, Illinois), Marks-Bronner, Stacey

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Gladys Diaz

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Diaz saw the shortage of books at her son's Chicago elementary school and became determined to try to improve the situation. She asked the local Target store to help, and soon the school received contributions from other businesses as well.

Author: Rattenbury, Jeanne
Donations, Biography, Education, Parent participation (Education), Diaz, Gladys

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