The Face of Chicago Business

After moving back to Chicago a few years ago, Alex Brown opened up "Space by Alex Brown" - a freelance studio designed to house some of Chicago’s top artists in the Beauty Industry. Kaitlin Armon sits down with Alex to talk about her incredible journey and the lessons learned along the way.

Francine Poole of The Face of Chicago Business sits down with friend and colleague, LaShondra Harmon, also known as “Financial Mommy,” to talk about redefining ‘wealth.’

Calvin Boyd may be a Michigan native but he knew from a very young age that he was destined to move to Chicago one day. After graduating from Michigan State University with his Doctorate of Law in 2015, Calvin realized that dream and established himself as an attorney in Chicago. He has worked across various firms over the years eventually starting his own, Boyd Law LLC, in 2017 specializing in Employment, Real Estate, and Entertainment law.

Meg Tange has been working since she was in high school. As a country club bartender, in Wisconsin her senior year, she decided to continue the hospitality gig throughout college eventually finding herself in Chicago bartending the wedding scene. She quickly fell in love not only with Chicago, and it’s big city neighborhood, but with the event scene itself. 

Jen Coffel sits down with her longtime friend, Rachelle Ferguson, to talk about the journey they've been on together over the last 15 years and what Living an Admired Life means. From the very beginning of the conversation it's clear what it means to each of them, with Rachelle paying homage to two women living admired lives.

At face-value it seems like Jon is in the traditional real estate business of helping clients buy and sell. However, in reality he’s brought his innate entrepreneurialism to the world of real estate by way of managing properties. He created Third City Properties a few years ago, focusing on investing in and managing multi-family and mixed use properties.