Chicago tech entrepreneur Rachel A. Brooks (L) and software engineer Bryn McCoy co-founded Citizen Made last fall to provide Chicago’s locally owned and small-sized retailers an affordable platform from which to sell personalized products. Photographed in their Ravenswood office on Thursday, May 24, 2012. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times

Chicago tech entrepreneur Rachel A. Brooks and software engineer Bryn McCoy co-founded Citizen Made last fall to provide Chicago’s locally owned and small-sized retailers an affordable platform from which to sell personalized products. Brooks is photographed in her Ravenswood office on Thursday, May 24, 2012. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times

Bryn McCoy, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Citizen Made; Rachel Weiss, Vice President, Digital Strategy, L'Oréal USA and Chair of L'Oréal USA Women in Digital; and Rachel Brooks, co-founder and CEO of Citizen Made at a recent meeting of L'Oréal USA Women in Digital.

Citizen Made Chief Technology Officer, Bryn McCoy, left and CEO and tech entrepreneur Rachel A. Brooks, together co-founded Citizen Made last fall to provide Chicago’s locally owned and small-sized retailers an affordable platform from which to sell personalized products. Photographed in their Ravenswood office on Thursday, May 24, 2012. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times

Chicago tech entrepreneur Rachel A. Brooks and software engineer Bryn McCoy co-founded Citizen Made last fall to provide Chicago’s locally owned and small-sized retailers an affordable platform from which to sell personalized products. McCoy is photographed in her Ravenswood office on Thursday, May 24, 2012. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times