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Sponsors

The award is sponsored by American Chartered Bank, Crain's Chicago Business, Market M, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

ABOUT THE SPONSORS

Allscripts
Allscripts is a leader in software, services, information and connectivity solutions that empower physicians and other healthcare providers to deliver best-in-class patient safety, clinical outcomes and financial results.

Nationwide, more than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare providers in clinics, post-acute care facilities, and homecare agencies utilize Allscripts solutions to automate and connect their clinical and business operations. Together with their clients, Allscripts is transforming our disconnected 'healthcare' system into a connected system of 'health'.

American Chartered Bank
American Chartered Bank is the premier commercial bank in Chicago focusing on privately held companies and the people who own and manage them. The Bank has grown to more than $2.7 billion in assets and is the third largest privately held bank in Illinois. The Bank has succeeded with an operating model that includes significant employee ownership and an intense focus on quality service through relationship banking. This emphasis on quality, staff expertise, and continued expansion has resulted in rapid growth and high levels of customer retention. American Chartered Bank is a specialized and highly focused bank in an environment where financial supermarkets are the current fashion.

The Bank has a reputation for an abiding care and respect for employees and customers. Above all, American Chartered strives to have the highest quality banking staff in the market and to provide superior service to clients.

Crain's
For 30 years, business and community leaders in metro Chicago have turned to Crain's Chicago Business for vital news and information, equaling over 300,000 weekly readers.

Crain's Web site, ChicagoBusiness.com, is the nation's largest local business Web site delivering daily, late-breaking news and headlines, custom industry alerts, and the most comprehensive coverage of local business news available to over 250,000 unique monthly visitors. ChicagoBusiness.com also provides daily videos, including Chicago Business Today, a morning online newscast along with audio slide shows, and interactive maps which allow business professionals to connect with our content in unique ways.

Grant Thornton International
Grant Thornton International is the world’s leading accounting, tax and business advisory organization dedicated to midsized companies. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International and one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. Through member firms in 111 countries, including 50 offices in the United States, the partners of Grant Thornton member firms provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients around the globe. Grant Thornton LLP’s website is http://www.GrantThornton.com

Market M
Market M is an integrated marketing and management consulting firm providing comprehensive project and campaign-based solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, as well as non-profits. Through our award-winning business model, we are able to serve as an affordable one-stop-shop for any marketing need. Branding, collateral, advertising, Web development, interactive, public relations, sales/development, events and research are all standard services in our portfolio and clients have the option to order one-off a-la-cart projects or package multiple projects as a campaign. For learn more about us and to view examples of our work, visit us online at www.marketm.com

University of Illinois at Chicago
The UIC Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies offers an acclaimed Entrepreneurship Program, ranked 3rd nationally by success magazine. Most recently, Entrepreneur magazine nationally ranked UIC, in serving our region, second by alumni and fourth by peer program directors. The program, which began in 1982 with the support of the Coleman Foundation, today offers an undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurship; an undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship; an MBA Concentration; PhD courses; a research symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship; an award-winning, nationally recognized program for business owners, the Certificate in Business Administration program; the national Collegiate Entrepreneur's Organization; the Center for Urban Business; and the Chicago West Side Entrepreneurship Center. The UIC Entrepreneurship Program received the NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. NASDAQ honored UIC for having an institute that has made and will continue to make contributions in advancing entrepreneurship as the force in economic growth throughout the world. UIC's College of Business Administration, in the top 20 percent nationally, serves 2,500 undergraduate students, 600 MBAs and 50 PhD candidates. One in every 73 adult Chicagoans is a UIC graduate.