Chicago Wolves Owner Don Levin Has Made His Mark

He owns a professional hockey team, a paper company, once owned a movie production company and is a dog lover. Meet Don Levin, the 70 something owner of the Chicago Wolves, an American League Hockey team formed in 1994 that has won 5 titles, but it didn’t start that way.

The Wolves, named after his mother’s maiden name, Wolf, was supposed to be a roller hockey team. “When Grant Mulvey retired from playing for the Chicago Blackhawks. Grant comes to work for us and reads an article the International Hockey League wants to put a team in Indiana.“

Not true. By Mulvey called the league president and suggested Chicago and by 1994 the Wolves began this rather successful odyssey.

In 1969, Levin bought Adam’s Apple, a head shop that closed in January after 52 years.

“We bought everything in the store expect rolling papers. I didn’t know what that was for.”

Well, he found out from customers and brought back the rolling papers and eventually developed poplar brands such as Job and Zig Zag. But he also bought a paper company and combined it became the largest in the world!

As for the movie company, it produced less than what you might term, award winners. Levin lost money.

But the dogs….”In the off season we have a group of veterinarians who help with vaccination clinics in under-served areas.”

But Levin takes it a step further with an in season “Adopt a Dog” feature and the Wolves have given away several thousand.

Entrepreneur, yes but as you can tell, Don Levin is a lot more than that.

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