Ally Marotti is a Reporter at Crain's Chicago Business. She covers a range of topics within the food and beverage industry, including restaurant innovation, chain restaurants, and the intersections of agriculture and real estate. Her work has been featured in Ad Age, Crain's Grand Rapids Business, Crain's Cleveland Business, and Crain's Detroit Business.
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Ally's coverage primarily focuses on local business and industry news in Chicago. She frequently covers press releases and private sector announcements related to the food & beverage industry, retail, restaurants, craft brewing, and comedy scene.
If you have insights or announcements related to local businesses, particularly in the food & beverage sector or retail industry within Chicago or Illinois, Ally would likely be interested. Additionally, if you can provide commentary on government announcements impacting these sectors at a local level (e.g., labor regulations), she may find it relevant for her reporting.
Given her focus on specific companies and events in Chicago's business landscape such as restaurant openings/closures and CEO changes at local establishments, pitches should be tailored specifically to the businesses or industries that are directly relevant to her coverage area.
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By: Ally Marotti
Three Chicago chefs are finalists.
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Beef prices are hitting records. But Chicago-style barbecue — rib tips — uses pork.
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Invenergy LLC is accelerating its acquisitions of US geothermal leases just as the Trump administration canceled four of the company's offshore wind leases worth $765 million.
By: Ally Marotti
Eighty-two Chicago-area restaurants were winners in Wine Spectator’s 2026 Restaurant Awards.
By: Ally Marotti
Though Chicago is not one of the host cities, a soccer craze has gripped its residents and visitors. And they do not want to stay home to spectate.
By: Ally Marotti
Early summer is usually a busy time for Chicago restaurant openings.
By: Ally Marotti
The Alinea Group's Esmero, with a tasting menu that uses Mexican ingredients and techniques, will run through November.
By: Micah Barkley, Michelle Amponsah, Ally Marotti
There's only one theater in Illinois with the capability to show the film as director Christopher Nolan intended.
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“Any time there’s some sort of food outbreak, you start questioning everything that you’re doing."
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The restaurant moved near Oprah's Harpo Studios long before the neighborhood became the hot spot it is today.
