To be close to her kids, she works mostly from an office on the third floor of her home in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.

FORBES: Life after death

The Synergos office is on the third floor of a town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, not far from the antique-filled brick home Dulany grew up in.

FORBES: The reluctant Rockefeller

Cantor and his staff occupy a sprawling space on the third floor of the Capitol (rather than in one of the far-flung House office buildings).

NEWYORKER: The House of Pain