CHICAGO, IL— Had this been any other late October evening in downtown Chicago, the tent flaps would have been closed shut. But on this night, with temperatures in the balmy 70s, more than 750 supporters of Chicago’s entrepreneurial community sat beneath softly-lit white tents and dined in the open breeze.
The Fifth Annual Momentum Awards Dinner, which cost $800 a seat, raised more than $1.5 million to fund ongoing programs at the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) and its projects, including 1871 — the newest shared working space for early-stage businesses — located at the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago.
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