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Crain's Chicago Business, August, 2006 by Lara, Alison Neumer
Byline: Alison Neumer Lara This summer marks Grace Barry's 20th year at the helm of the Economic Club of Chicago, one of the city's most prominent forums for civic and business leaders. Somewhere between hosting foreign prime ministers and Fortune 500 CEOs, the 64-year-old president of the club finds time to keep her finger on the pulse.
Her canon: Financial Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek and Fortune. "Everything you'd expect. I'm a good magazine reader. Then I watch all the cable news-CNN, MSNBC-and I flip through channels. . . .I get up early and go to bed late, so I spend the beginning and ending hours of my day in this endeavor.'' Primary source: Research reports from the Council on Foreign Relations,...
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