Chamber Choice Awards to Recognize Best of Downers Grove Businesses

The Downers Grove Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry will recognize the best of the local business community Wednesday during its sixth annual Chamber Choice Awards.

The ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Seven Bridges Golf Club in Woodridge. 

Chamber Choice Awards are given out in the following categories: Lifetime Achievement, Young Business Professional, Community Contribution by a Not-for-Profit and Business Excellence. The finalists for the Business Excellence award were selected from four industries— Industrial/Construction, Service, Hospitality and Professional.

All winners are selected by a judging panel of previous Chamber Choice Award winners. This year, 40 nominations were received, according to chamber officials.

“This prestigious Chamber Choice Award recognizes the best of the best in five types of organizations and two individuals in the Downers Grove Area. After five years on the judging panel I’m still amazed at the quality of the worthy applicants," said Jan Kopis, recipient of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award.

One of the following category winners will be chosen for the Overall Business Excellence Award: Concept Care Chiropractic and Wellness Center (Professional), llinois Business Systems (Service), Bradford and Kent (Industrial/Construction) and Skuddlebutts (Hospitality).

West Suburban Community Pantry will be recognized with a well-deserved Community Contribution Award. The Young Business Professional of the Year Award will go to Erin Seal-Waszak of Pinstripes.  

The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented posthumously to Betty Jane "BJ" Boyd, the late owner of the downtown gift shop Consider It Done. Boyd died in September after a seven-month battle with cancer. She was 60.

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