Thursday, March 15, 2012

Marty Silverman

HE IS Second-generation furrier, past president of the AssociatedFur Industries of Chicagoland. Owns and operates Maple Furriers inOak Park. It's the Midwest's largest fur-coat manufacturing firm. PHILOSOPHY "Do no harm, keep moving, have fun."

CHICAGO AND FUR "The fur business is Chicago's oldest honorableprofession. Maybe the world's. Before Chicago was a city, it was afur trading post." STATS His mother and dad started the firm in the 1920s. He works init with wife Belle, nieces and nephews - two dozen employesaltogether. Lives in River Forest, 67, married 37 years, threechildren. Oak Park-River Forest High, economics degree from the U.of Wisconsin, World War II …

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