Dr. Susan Scanlon Name: Susan Scanlon, MD Title/Company: President and Chairman of the Board, Midwest Center for Women's Healthcare. Illinois Medical Director, Unified Women's Healthcare Address: 2801 Lakeside Drive, Suite 209, Bannockburn Phone: (847) 884-9800 Website: mcwhc.com; scanlonworks.com Industry: Women's health care Annual revenue: $40 million Number of employees: 228 Age: 59 Family life: My son is a lawyer in Chicago. My oldest daughter has her Masters in accounting and works in auditing at Deloitte. My youngest daughter works in research at Northwestern as a clinical trial coordinator in the Department of Dermatology. He grew up in Glen Ellyn. Lived…
Author: Cecil Larson
The last time there was a major change in the Blues' TV booth, in 2009, there was no opening to fill. Team officials and what is now Bally Sports Midwest simply brought in Darren Pang, who had been on Phoenix Coyotes broadcasts, to join the crew as lead analyst.”It's not a knock on anyone,” then Blues chairman John Davidson said. “We're just trying to get better from the beginning.” Bally Sports Midwest and WXOS (101.1 FM) sportscaster Jamie Rivers. Fourteen years later, the parties have a real opening in that lineup, and this time they're staying at home, set to…
The post-industrial Midwest is far from the poorest region of the country. To find the worst economic conditions in the United States, one generally has to look toward Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta region, the Rio Grande Valley, and a bunch of Native American counties in the Southwest and Great Plains. What the Midwest's recent economic struggles bring, however, is not just large-scale political salience but a certain kind of fixability. The poorest places in the United States have been poor for a long time and lack the basic infrastructure of well-being. But that's not the case in the Midwest, where…
As voters in two southwest Minnesota school districts prepare to decide Tuesday whether to build new schools, the Worthington and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton school districts are battling a man some are calling a “bond wrecker.”Opponents of the referendum in both communities brought Paul Dorr, an Iowa consultant who works to defeat school referendums across the Midwest. For at least 25 years, in nine states, people hired him to defeat their school district's bond proposals. It creates mailers, radio ads and Facebook pages telling residents to vote “no.” In Worthington, schools have been growing by about 100 new students each year for the…
In the Green Market Report At the Midwest Women's Cannabis Business Summit in Chicago on November 2nd, we recognized some of the top players in the industry with the GMR Midwest Women in Cannabis Awards. The pioneer award was presented to Jackie Cahan, managing partner at Chicago-based logistics support firm 240L Holdings, which specializes in supply chain solutions for marijuana companies. Jackie Kahan Cahan is relatively new to the marijuana business, having just released 240L in early 2021, but after just a few years she says she feels like a “seasoned veteran.” “I didn't know I needed the cannabis business,”…
Grant Gillon photo courtesy of FOX Entertainment Publicity Thu 21 Sep 2023 10:50 PM He takes home the $250,000 prize money Press release In Wednesday's two-part finale, contestants Grant Gillon, Kennedy Underwood and Jennifer Maune prepared three-course meals reflecting their respective “MasterChef United Tastes of America” regions. The Midwest's Grant Gillon wowed judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Aarón Sánchez by making raviolo al' uovo, pork tenderloin medallions and torn cake and was crowned the winner of “MasterChef: United Tastes of America”! Watch the moment of victory here. Gillon said, “Winning 'MasterChef' 13 is an absolute honor of a lifetime…
The 2023 high school football season has arrived, with teams kicking off across the country in August. That means the first USA TODAY Sports Super 25 is upon us, marking another beginning for an iconic franchise that began in 1982. Last year's Super 25 was one of the tightest matches ever as St. John Bosco narrowly beat Mater Dei and Bishop Gorman, as well as Texas power Duncanville and Miami Central (Fla.). How will things turn out this season? Ahead of the start of the Super 25, USA TODAY HSS is taking a look across the country at the five…
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Sen. Tom Harkin can break from a long list of Midwestern populists with whom he has served in Congress: Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Sen. Tom Eagleton of Missouri. Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, Rep. Jim Symington of Missouri;Of course, he is the only one left in office.”I guess I'm pretty lonely now that you think about it,” the Iowa Democrat said in a recent interview.In 2015, Harkin will also be gone, after retiring from the Senate. The future of Iowa's progressive populist tradition appears to lie with Rep. Bruce Braley, running for…
Pedestrians battle snow and cold weather on Clinton Street and Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. Photo by Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images MILWAUKEE – Hundreds of schools and several major universities closed their campuses Tuesday as temperatures plummeted across the Midwest, with forecasters warning that the frigid weather will worsen and could be life-threatening. Extreme cold and record temperatures are creeping into a number of states stretching from North Dakota to Missouri and into Ohio after a powerful snowstorm hit the region earlier this week. Arctic air early Tuesday dropped temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota to minus 27…