Built-In Chicago (Aug. 19) -- There’s something refreshingly Midwestern about e-commerce giant PayPal. It might be that PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is an alumnus of Illinois. Or it could be their $800 million acquisition of Chicago darling Braintree (a few years before PayPal split from eBay just last month). Throw in today’s announcement that PayPal has acquired Modest, the reclusive brainchild of former Obama campaigners Harper Reed and Dylan Richard, and it’s not hard to see why.