People keep asking me if Chicago has a tech start-up community. There are website design companies, website hosting companies, and hobby-preneurs in every city on the map; but here’s a visual of the geographic distribution of recognizable web companies.

http://startupsearch.org/map/company/

Chicago is in the top 6 (and we have the alphabetical competitive edge)

Apparently the rest of the midwest is a web start-up wasteland.

I hope someone puts Cleveland back on the map. Besides our forefather John Rockefeller.