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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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American Hotel Register in Vernon Hills is seeking a sales-tax rebate from the village amounting to $1.37 million over 10 years for internal improvements to its headquarters. A company representative says the renovations will attract employees who will eat and shop in the village.

Should Vernon Hills give local company $1.37 million to attract millennials?

Vernon Hills is considering a potentially precedent-setting sales tax agreement that would help fund internal renovations at a corporate headquaters along Milwaukee Avenue.
Mike Noettl, far right, of Magnetic Inspection Laboratory, watches a demonstration of a portable fume extractor with Gene Kriener, left, and Roy Sye, center, of Sinclair Mineral, during the annual Made in Elk Grove Manufacturing & Technology Expo on Monday.

Manufacturers gather for Elk Grove business expo

Nearly 100 Elk Grove Village-based businesses, from precision machining to plastics, came together Monday to network during the village's sixth annual business expo.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is among companies being sued by two suburban nonprofits that provide health insurance to employees of hundreds of local governments.

Suburban health insurance providers sue opioid manufacturers, prescribers

Two suburban-based nonprofit risk pools that provide more than 203 local municipalities with employee health insurance filed a joint lawsuit against leading opioid manufacturers, distributors, professional associations and prescribers.
The Blue Goose Market is among a few businesses looking to offer home delivery programs that include packaged alcohol.

St. Charles lifts ban on home alcohol deliveries

St. Charles officials have decided to lift the city's ban on alcohol deliveries, as long as all parties involved follow existing state and local liquor laws.
Hoffman Estates officials Monday said a representative of Sears Holdings Corp. reached out to Sears Centre Arena management Monday to say the retailer intended to “move ahead” with a recently renewed naming-rights agreement even while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Sears will 'move ahead' with naming rights for Hoffman Estates arena, officials say
Hoffman Estates officials say they believe Sears Holding Corp.'s renewal of its naming-rights agreement for the Sears Centre Arena, approved only a week ago, was done in good faith, despite the company's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday.
Buffalo Grove leaders have placed a moratorium on the retail sale of cats and dogs in the village while they continue to debate potential regulations aimed at suspected puppy mills.
Buffalo Grove puts temporary ban on dog, cat sales
As Buffalo Grove leaders continue to debate regulations to prevent the sale of dogs from suspected puppy mills, the village imposing a six-month moratorium on the wholesale and retail sale of dogs and cats.
Assurance, a large independent insurance brokerage firm, will relocate its headquarters to 20 N. Martingale Road in Schaumburg in 2019.
Assurance relocating headquarters in Schaumburg
Assurance, a large independent insurance brokerage firm, will relocate its headquarters to 20 N. Martingale Road in Schaumburg in 2019.
A rendering shows the proposed Blue Sky Residences, a 67-unit apartment building for seniors on the 900 block of North Avenue between Second and Third avenues in Des Plaines.
Des Plaines gives early go-ahead for senior apartments over neighbors' opposition
A proposed senior living community in Des Plaines opposed by its potential neighbors narrowly cleared a major hurdle Monday toward approval from city leaders.
A former Sears Holdings Corp. store stands in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Sears' 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
Monday's announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant's collapse in recent years. Still, the news inspired a wave of nostalgia for a company that sold an ideal of middle-class life to generations of Americans.
A sign for a Sears department store is displayed in Hackensack, N.J., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Amazon of its day, Sears' woes were years in the making
How the might have fallen: Sears, which was the Amazon of its day, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
FILE - In this July 17, 2001 file photo, Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen appears in a suite in the team’s stadium in Seattle. Allen, billionaire owner of the Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks and Microsoft co-founder, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 at age 65. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, had returned.
Microsoft co-founder, sports franchise owner Paul Allen dies at 65
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65.
Truluck’s serves Florida Stone Crab fresh from its own fisheries near the Florida Keys. “We serve them fresh — never frozen — from our traps to your table in hours,” says special events coordinator Cassandra Mazur.
Business Ledger | Truluck's brings Southern hospitality to Rosemont
An interview with Cassandra Mazur, special events coordinator at Truluck's Seafood, Steak, and Crab House in Rosemont.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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