Area women honored by business publication

SUN STAFF

Twenty-two Chicago-area business owners and executives last month were named Influential Women in Business by The Business Ledger.

Honorees were recognized at an awards luncheon Oct. 26 at The Abbington in Glen Ellyn. This represents the eighth class to be honored since the program's inception by the Oak Brook-based business newspaper in 1998, in partnership with the Chicago Area Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Five Naperville professionals were among the group.

The 2005 recipients are: Carole Borg, CB Richard Ellis, Oak Brook; Margaret Brennan, Brennan and Brosnan, Naperville; Betsy Brosnan, Brennan and Brosnan, Naperville; Valerie Bruggeman, SBC Illinois, Wheaton; Laura Crawford, Naperville Chamber of Commerce; Leslie Day, Day Consulting, Wheaton; Katie Dolan Dix, Capannari's Ice Cream, Mount Prospect; Muriel Finkel, Finkel Supply, Itasca.

Also, Shay Jacobson, Life Care Innovations, Oakbrook Terrace; Valerie Koehler, Lynfred Winery, Roselle; Karen Kurek, RSM McGladrey, Schaumburg; Linda Linford, Naperville Area Humane Society; Maureen O'Brien, O'Brien & Sons, Batavia; Lucrezia O'Brien, LaFinesse Hair Salon & Day Spa, Lisle; Dr. Patricia O'Donnell, Naperville Foot Clinic; Valerie Rawls, Hill Rawls Marketing Consulting, Schaumburg; Karen Shabel, American Chartered Bank, Downers Grove.

Also, Carol Simler, DuPage PADS, Wheaton; Mary Kay Slowikowski, Slowikowski Associates, Darien; Donna Stevenson, Stevenson Crane Service, Bolingbrook; Nelly Venecia, Venecia Group, Aurora; and Connie Walsh, Walsh Financial Services, Wheaton.

11/10/05