Dan Miller

Dan Miller is a veteran Chicago journalist and commentator. He was business editor of the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times, and helped launch Crain's Chicago Business, which he edited for 15 years. He was named publisher of Crain's City & State, a national business newspaper for state and local government in 1990, and later served as chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission from 1995-1999.

Dan was named Illinois Journalist of the Year by Northern Illinois University in 1981, and was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2006.

He serves as a policy adviser at the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank based in Chicago. Along with Tom Kuczmarski, Dan co-founded the Chicago Innovation Awards in 2002.