Companies receive Lincoln awards

LISLE—Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove; Delta Dental of Illinois, Lisle; and Community Consolidated School District #93, Bloomingdale have received the silver award for “progress towards excellence” from the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence.

Martopia honored

CHICAGO - Martopia, has received the 2007 FastTrack Award, recognizing the firm as a fast growing company. This is the second consecutive year the marketing and public relations firm has won the award.

Porte Brown recognized for philanthropy

ELK GROVE VILLEGE - Porte Brown LLC, Certified Public Accountants has been recognized as Foundation Fellows by the Lions of Illinois Foundation for support of programs and services for the visually and hearing impaired.

Edward Hospital gets high rankings

NAPERVILLE - Edward Hospital is the number one hospital for overall quality in Chicago’s south and west suburbs and the number one non-academic hospital for overall quality in the entire Chicago area, according to a 2007 survey by the National Research Corporation.

Quik Impressions expands

LOMBARD - Quik Impressions Group, Inc. is moving from its current 7,500 square foot 20,100 square foot facility at 1385 Jeffrey Drive in Addison.

Central DuPage affiliates honored

WINFIED - Central DuPage Hospital is proud to announce its affiliated agencies Community Alliance (Aurora) and CNS Home Health & Hospice (Carol Stream) have been named to the 2007 HomeCare Elite for the second consecutive year. This list is a compilation of the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States, measuring in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance. Additionally, Community Alliance has been named a Top 500 Agency in the nation for 2007.

Gerard Design ranked for growth

WARRENVILLE - Gerard Design, a strategic branding and design communications agency, recently was named as one of the area’s fastest growing private companies by Inc. magazine. The firm was ranked number 45 in the top companies in the media industry in America, and number 70 in the top companies in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metro region.

Antique dealer moves

ST. CHARLES - After 22 years in Route 64 (Main Street) in St.

Charles, Antique Market III has relocated to 11 N. 3rd Street at the east

end of Old St. Charles Place Plaza.

Openings

VILLA PARK - ABG Collections has announced its grand opening. The company provides outsourced collection services on a contract basis. President Angela Schroeder has 13 years of credit and collection experience.

VILLA PARK – MacSpecialist, an Apple Authorized Reseller, Service Provider and Training Center, is expanding the Villa Park based company and opening a second location in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, at 500 N. Wells St. The location is scheduled to open in late December 2007.

SCHILLER PARK—Atlas Material Handling announces expansion

Atlas Material Handling has recently acquired Warehouse Products, LLC, a San Bernardino, Cal.-based distributor of material handling products. Its AtlasBobcat division recently opened a new Parts and Service center in Yorkville covers the large Chicago territory with six sales and service facilities in Schiller Park, West Chicago, Wauconda, Mokena, Batavia, South Holland in Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana.