The Chicago Tribune profiled Ilene Gordon, CEO of Ingredion, about the powerful impact her leadership has had on the company. Ilene has rebranded and repositioned the company as a global ingredient maker that's increasingly working with large food and beverage companies trying to evolve with changing consumer trends. "You always have people who are a little bit skeptical," Ilene Gordon said. "It's all about creating success stories and communicating to everyone where you're going." Read more...

Ulta's annual forecast surged due to high demand for beauty products. "Several positive factors are coming together to drive the momentum in our business," Chief Executive Officer Mary Dillon said in the statement. "These include healthy consumer demand in the beauty category; our unique format and offering, which are supporting sustained share gains; and effective collaboration." Read more...

Susan Lichtenstein, Of Counsel at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, wrote an op-ed about highly entertaining, fantasy and aspirational television. Read more...

Shradha Argawal, CEO of Context Media, is bringing cutting-edge technology to improve healthcare outcomes. Leveraging data, information, and new technologies, the company is educating patients on lifestyle and solution options in the waiting room. Read more... 

Fifth Third Bank held its 6th Annual Community Leaders Program honoring outstanding leaders from across the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana regions. YWCA Metropolitan Chicago (Dorri McWhorter) was honored as the nonprofit of the year and Julie Smolyansky, President & CEO, Lifeway Foods, Inc., was recognized as the Women's Community Leader. Honorees each received a $5,300 donation from Fifth Third Bank to pay it forward.

MACARTHUR FOUNDATION'S 100&CHANGE PROGRAM

The MacArthur Foundation (Julia Stasch) announced the 100&Change program, which aims to award its biggest individual grant yet via a competition in the realms of public-spiritedness and altruism. As part of the judging, finalists will be asked to give public talks detailing their ideas, the staid world of philanthropy borrowing from the popularity of public ideas forums. The competition is wide-open by design, but it does ask would-be grantees to address a critical problem affecting people, places or the planet. Read more...

Graham Media Group, Inc., ( Emily Barr) a Graham Holdings Company subsidiary, has reached an agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. and Media General, Inc. to acquire a WCWJ, a CW affiliate television station in Jacksonville, FL and WSLS an NBC affiliate television station in Roanoke, VA. Graham Media Group, Inc., owns five local TV stations - each in a top-50 market and all recognized as leaders- reaching 6.4% of U.S. television households. The acquisition is subject to approval by the FCC, other regulatory approvals, and the satisfaction of closing conditions. Read more...

Blythe McGarvie wrote an article in the New Eastern European Journal entitled, "Wildest Dreams in Croatia." The article focused on business and culture in Croatia and was written while she was living in Zagreb during the past academic year. She and her husband have returned to the US and are spending the summer in Chicago. Read the full issue here !

ALYSIA TATE INTERVIEWED ON WGN RADIO

Alysia Tate, Director of Programs for the Chicago Foundation for Women, joined Justin Kaufmann at The Big Table to discuss her career path and the Chicago Foundation for Women, including the impact of the budget impasse on women and families, the 100 Percent Project, the struggle for equal pay and creating pathways for women to occupy leadership roles. "When you have women in charge," said Alysia Tate, "more women get chances and opportunities that they normally wouldn't get." Listen to the full interview here!

Chicago's Holy Cross Hospital plans to open a 32-bed crisis stabilization unit in February where police can take people experiencing psychiatric or substance-use problems. Sinai Health System ( Karen Teitelbaum) announced plans for a $4 million unit next to the South Side hospital's emergency department. Sinai is working with city and county law enforcement to keep mentally ill people out of jail. Sinai plans to open an outpatient mental health clinic this summer and a 24-bed inpatient unit in the fall. Read more...

LAUREL BELLOWS GIVES TEDxIIT TALK ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING

It is estimated that 100,000 US citizens are enslaved in our country, plus thousands more people brought into the United States from Asia, Latin American and Eastern Europe, all forced to provide labor and commercial sex for the profit of their captors, every day, in the United States. Half of the victims brought into the U.S. are children; ¾ of the victims are legal immigrants on guest worker visas. As past president of the 400,000 member American Bar Association Laurel developed an action agenda to educate and reduce this horrific invisible epidemic, also known as Human Trafficking. View Laurels Bellows' TEDx Talk: http://livestream.com/TEDx/IIT2016, at 4 hour 16 minutes point directly to skip to Laurel"s Talk.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. was added to the S&P 500, replacing Coca Cola Enterprises. Gallagher is the fourth largest insurance broker and risk manager in the world, headquartered in Itasca, with revenues in excess of $5 billion. Kay McCurdy chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee and Sherry Barrat, a Non-Resident TCN member, also serves on the board.

 
ARZU is once again competing in the Skoll Foundation's "Social Entrepreneurs' Challenge Campaign." ARZU will go head to head with other Skoll honorees to raise the most money by "crowd-sourcing" online donations from friends, supporters, kids, clubs -- even strangers -- on the electronic "crowd-funding" site called Crowdrise. By making an online donation to ARZU through  Crowdrise, you position ARZU to win weekly and a grand prize of $65,000. In Skoll's past two campaigns, ARZU placed in the top four both times and won total prize money of $250,000.
The Challenge has launched and runs through Wednesday, June 29th.  It's easy to donate with just a few clicks. Then, email, tweet and post this link, https://www.crowdrise.com/arzu-2016SkollSE