• Evanston-based Myefski Architects has spent 2014 celebrating the firm’s 20th anniversary. Since 1994, Myefski Architects has evolved to include a portfolio of both commercial and residential work. The firm has designed over 500 projects and received 80 awards for design excellence. One of the ways the firm chose to celebrate this anniversary milestone involved collaborating on the architectural design for a dream project – Helsinki’s new Guggenheim Museum.
• Oak Brook-based Ace Hardware announced the promotion of two leaders within the Ace Hardware organization – Dan Miller and Brian Wiborg. Miller has been named vice president of retail operations and new business, and Wiborg has been appointed to vice president of retail development and supply.
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, in Park Ridge, has once again attained Magnet recognition as part of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program. This voluntary credential is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. It recognizes the very best in nursing care and professionalism in nursing practices.
• Marriott Golf, one of the world’s premier golf operators, has announced that the Crane’s Landing Golf Club, located in Lincolnshire, IL., has received an Environmental Sustainability Performance Award Program commendation for its environmental leadership.
• Illinois Performance Excellence announced that Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, of Oak Brook, is a recipient of the 2014 Silver Award for “Progress toward Excellence” for demonstrating effective, systematic, well-deployed approaches that respond to the multiple requirements to most of the Criteria. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund will be formally honored at the 20th annual award recognition ceremony, “Saluting Excellence,” on March 26, 2015, held at the Abbington Banquets located in Glen Ellyn.
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