Grace Culloton Steve Hamilton It is a refreshing change to see a company show that they care about passenger’s personal information—especially an airline routinely assailed by customers in consumer surveys. In this day and age where it seems like no one is safe from hackers of any background or motives, United Airlines has
By Dennis Culloton, CEO and President and our intern, Shannon O'Malley It's great to have a positive, customer-friendly message when your company is under fire. It's even better when that message is accurate and holds up under scrutiny-- like "60 Minutes" scrutiny. Lumber Liquidators had its founder and Chairman Tom Sullivan go mano a mano
By Dennis Culloton, CEO and President Way back in the 80s, media critic and author Neil Postman wrote a prophetic tome, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," which predicted mindless TV would infiltrate and dominate all public discourse and life. Though I had to read it way back in the last Century, it all came back to
By Tracey Mendrek, Executive Vice President Flying below the radar, Twitter’s live-streaming app, Periscope, made its debut a week ago. If you know about Periscope you are likely the hippest person you know and a social media aficionado. So after watching for several hours some things come to mind: When the next world event or
Dennis Culloton, CEO & President Two years ago, Marjane Starapi’s acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis was banned from Chicago Public Schools to the dismay of students and CPS staff alike. The novel regales the story of a young woman growing up in revolutionary Iran during the 1980s. Recently emails were released to a graduate student investigating
By Dennis Culloton, President and CEO In preparation for last weeks election here in Chicago, politicians were doing whatever they could to secure the last minute vote. In the closing days, alderman and mayoral candidate Bob Fioretti took to the social media platform Reddit to reach out to Chicago's young people via an AMA. An
By Dennis Culloton, President and CEO It’s a sign of the times that there is more buzz in social and mainstream media about who will succeed “Fake news anchor” Jon Stewart now that he's leaving the Daily Show. The blogosphere has been flooding with articles mourning his departure and suggesting his replacement host. The number
By Dennis Culloton, President and CEO If you were looking for the sign of the decay of civilization, consider the Internet and the haters and the dead Nationwide commercial kid. #Harshedyourvibe! Just another week in the internet, as noted by Wired magazine . Okay, so don’t really consider it. Technology has unleashed opportunity, a
by Tracey Mendrek, Executive Vice President The State of Illinois must be pulled back from the abyss, on that we can all agree, but “We the People” are as much to blame as the politicians that we send to Springfield every year. According to Progress Illinois, “The governor’s race typically draws a voter participation rate
Statement from Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts Words cannot express how important Ernie Banks will always be to the Chicago Cubs, the city of Chicago and Major League Baseball. He was one of the greatest players of all time. He was a pioneer in the major leagues. And and more importantly, he was the warmest and