From Fifty by Fifty: Hoda Katebi, an Iranian-American fashion designer, known for her fashion blog JooJoo Azad, has turned her sights to helping immigrant and refugee women by starting a clothing production cooperative in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Blue Tin Production Co-op, says Katebi, will create jobs for women who have experienced trauma, but it will […]

From Crain’s Chicago: As many as 2,000 small local manufacturing firms could be up for sale in the next decade. Four local nonprofits want minority and female entrepreneurs to buy them. The Chicago Ownership Conversion Project aims to correct a “demographic crisis” in manufacturing by finding African-American, Hispanic and female buyers, as well as employee-led […]