Business and Philanthropy
- Bob Bernard, entrepreneur
- Charles Deering, businessman, art collector, and philanthropist
- William Deering, businessman and philanthropist
- Francis Dewes, German immigrant, brewer, millionaire, original owner of the historic mansion Francis J. Dewes House.
- Marshall Field, entrepreneur
- Ada Sawyer Garrett, 19th Century socialite and philanthropist
- William O. Goodman, lumber tycoon
- H. G. Haugan, railroad executive
- Helge Alexander Haugan, banking executive
- Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
- Ray Kroc, first CEO of McDonald's
- Matthew Laflin, gunpowder manufacturer and philanthropist
- Charles Magnus Lindgren, shipping cxecutive
- John R. Lindgren, banking Executive
- Horatio G. Loomis, an organizer of the Chicago Board of Trade
- Catherine T. MacArthur, philanthropist
- McCormick family, prominent in business and philanthropy
- Blythe McGarvie, President of Leadership for International Finance, LLC
- Abraham Lincoln Neiman, businessman and member of the Neiman Marcus family
- William S. Paley, CBS executive
- Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
- Bertha Palmer, socialite, philanthropist
- George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
- W. Clement Stone, entrepreneur; founder of what is known today as AON Corporation
- Edmund Dick Taylor, known as "Father of the Greenback", banker, railroad executive, entrepreneur
- Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur
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“Some of the smartest women in the country said that they’re too embarrassed to attend their reunions at Harvard Business School if they have dropped out of the work force, left the fast track by choosing part-time work, or decided to follow anything other than the standard male career path.”
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“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
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