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Chicago's Biggest Ideas

Find out Chicago’s new innovative ideas to help end world hunger, understand Parkinson’s, cure migraines and more.

Photo illustration: Michael Moore
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We visit the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation.
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West Loop design firm IDEO redesigns the retail giant—and that’s just one project
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Can cell-phone technology change the lives of Parkinson’s patients?
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Matthew Krisiloff is working on making patties from crickets, flies and more.
We’re not sure we want these Chicago-born ideas to become reality.
From Next’s ticketing system to vertical farming, it was a banner year for Chicago innovators.
Local entrepreneurs school us on launching a Big Idea.
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