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If you're flexible on location, consider Epic in Madison. by epmnet37
We're slowly transitioning a lot of our functionality from VB to the web, so I'd expect you could get on a project doing that. I'm not really technical enough to say how similar that is to what you're doing, although I could put you in touch with some ND developers here who might be able to.
Obviously, not in Chicago proper, but not a bad drive for visiting on weekends and the traffic is certainly an improvement. Helps that we're pretty much always looking for developers. Email attached in case I can answer any more specific questions.