If we were in the Avengers movie, Robert Middlekauff would be Iron Man.

Malik Gillani understands the power of stories. As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Silk Road Rising, America’s first theatre and media arts organization dedicated to telling stories of Asian and Middle Eastern communities, Gillani has helped bring hundreds of stories to life in the Loop’s Chicago Temple Building.

When Marion Batey heard she had been named the Loop Employee of the Month for March, her first thought was not how the recognition might serve her, but how she could use that recognition to draw attention to her team and their work.
Batey has been the Business Relations Specialist for the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership for the past seven years.