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While these days Chicago might have an even bigger “local boy makes good” story than Adrian Holovaty, I’m happy to say that I consider Adrian one of the most incentive, and nicest people doing stuff on the web. We’ve had the great privilege to have him speak at both Web Directions North and South, and hope to do so again in the future.

Adrian’s list of accomplishments and achievements are long, and almost defy belief. And as mentioned, of all the wonderful, generous folks from the web industry I’ve had the privilege to meet these last 10 years or so, Adrian has to be one of the very nicest and most generous with his time and expertise.

Via Slate, where he gets a name check in a story on the crisis in journalism, I found a reference to a detailed profile of Adrian in the Chicago Tribune earlier this year.

If you’ve got a few moments, I do recommend it.