If you use the search 'By Distance from a Location', please fill the distance field.
For best results, enter a complete address. If you only enter city or zip, the distance feature begins from the center of that area and may not include the entire city or zip code area you would like to search.
ChicagoVMA search engine treats "%" as a wildcard -- meaning “any character or any word".
Example. Suppose that you are looking for a contact with a first name similar to "Michael", but possibly something different such as "Michelle" or "Michał". If you search for "Mich%" you will find all these variations, including a contact who is supposed to be named "Michael" but whose name was misspelled as "Micheal". Wildcards can be used before, after, or even within words. For example, searching on 'Mich%el' will exclude "Michał" and "Micheal" but still find "Michelle" and "Michael".