Joshua Merit

Career
Joshua is the owner and CEO of Merit Properties, a real estate development company which manages high-rises and apartments complexes in the Chicago area. He is also a member of the Chicago Growth Council, a group of business representatives, which advises the mayor, Seth Tate on development issues. .

Family
Joshua felt that in his childhood his family did not have enough money and therefore vowed to accumulate as much money as possible during his own life. His relationship with his parents is stressed and his daughter, Merit, does not think very highly of him because of his obsession with money. He is also the father of Charlotte Merit and Robert Merit as well as the late Caroline.

He lives with his wife in Oak Park in a massive post-modern concrete building.