Legacy Gallery - Women's Business Development Center

1st Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference (EWC), 1987

Terry Savage at the 1st EWC, 1986

Hedy Ratner and 1996 Sponsors of the Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference

Jim Houlihan (Cook County Assessor), Hedy Ratner, Rebecca Boenigk and contributed furniture to the WBDC

Teresa Kern, Carol Dougal, Mary Kay, Hedy Ratner, Cher Reich, Arabel Alva Rosales, and Sandra Guthman at the 7th EWC, 1993

7th Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference, 1993

Carol Dougal and Hedy Ratner with representatives of 1st Chicago Bank’s Mobile Financial Assistance program, where the WBDC led access to capital assistance.

WBDC Board

SBA Awards, 1999

1993 EWC Awards to Arcilla Stahl, Illinois Bell; Carol Dougal ; Carolyn Crozier, CSC Consulting; Hedy Ratner; Cindy Richards, Chicago Sun Times

WBDC Staff

Top: Mary Ann Angle, Heather Parish, Jaribu Kitwana, Linda Darragh, Kristin Johnson. Bottom: Janice Bailey, Sara Shifrin, Carolyn McVeigh

WBDC Staff, 1998

1990 EWC Awards: Carol Dougal; Lindsey Johnson, USSBA; Rieva Lesonsky, Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine; Hedy Ratner

Helen Brown; Susan Wine, Chair of WBDC Board; Hedy Ratner; Carol Dougal; Norma Lauder

Susan Engeleiter, 1st female SBA Director with Carol Dougal and Hedy Ratner

Hedy Ratner and Mayor Richard Daley at EWC at Navy Pier

WBDC Board with U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun

(1989) Chicago Business women discuss the state of women in business – present and future – at the 3rd Annual Entrepreneurial Woman’s Conference co-sponsored by the Women’s Business Development Center and the Chicago Sun-Times. Panel participants included (from left to right): Pyhyllis Apelbaum, president, Arrow Messenger; Cynthia J. Johnson, president, Johnson & Associates Business Interiors; Judy Nierdermaier, president, Niedermaier, Inc.; Terry Savage (moderator), Financial Analyst for Channel 2 WBBM TV (CBS); Robin Brantley, co-anchor at Fox 32 News ; and Marilyn Miglin, president and CEO, Marilyn Miglin, Inc.

(1989) WBDC Staff including: Carol Dougal, Helen Brown, Willa Randall, Teresa Kern, Christine Kowalke, Carol Dougal, and Hedy Ratner.

Hedy with Illinois Governor Jim Thompson, first major supporter of the WBDC

Teresa Prim – First Director of WBDC Access to Capital

Christine Kowalke WBDC staff, then contractor for the EWC and Childcare Conference

Hedy Ratner, Teresa Prim, and staff in the WBDC office.

Hedy Ratner and Debra Sawyer – a WBE client and award winner, showing “About Women’s Business” articles.

Christine Kowalke, Hedy Ratner, Teresa Prim, Carol Dougal and staff at the 6th annual EWC, 1992

Early EWC Forum Panel for the 6th Annual EWC, 1992

Hedy Ratner; Cindy Richards, Chicago Sun Times; Barbara Levy Kipper, CEO of Chas. Levy Circulating; Diane Von Furstenberg, Fashion Maven; Francis Lear, publisher; Carol Dougal; Barbara Procter, Procter & Gardner Advertising.