Retail and Shopping
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Barrington raises age to purchase tobacco, vaping productsOct 23, 2018 5:22 am - Barrington village board members Monday night approved raising the minimum age for buying tobacco and vaping products such as electronic cigarettes to 21 from 18. Villag...
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Welcome to the first holiday season without Toys R Us
Oct 21, 2018 1:00 am - One week before Thanksgiving, FAO Schwarz's signature toy soldiers will stand at the ready to ring in the holiday season. Three years after closing its Manhattan flagshi...
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Wine consumption spikingOct 19, 2018 1:00 am - The U.S. wine market reached 344.7 million nine-liter cases in 2017, an increase of 1 percent, according to the Beverage Information Group's 2018 Wine Handbook. That's d...
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Guaranteed authentic: Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale a 'safe' place to shopOct 16, 2018 11:00 pm - Debbie McArdle, president of the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association, says the organization's 44th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale is different from oth...
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Buffalo Grove puts temporary ban on dog, cat salesOct 16, 2018 1:00 am - 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 wholes...
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Sears' 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
Oct 16, 2018 1:00 am - 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 ...
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District 300 lodges complaint to halt Sears tax incentivesOct 12, 2018 1:00 am - Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 has filed a lawsuit against Sears Holdings Corp. to prevent it from receiving local property tax revenue as an economic incen...
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With few seeing second act for Sears, company shares routed
Oct 11, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sears was being pummeled before the opening bell on a report that banks are pushing the 130-year-old retailer to liquidate. The report Thursday in The Wa...
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Sears could finally be nearing bankruptcy after years of decline
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Golf Mill Sears to closeOct 05, 2018 1:00 am - The Sears department store at Golf Mill in Niles will close, with layoffs beginning in December. Hoffman Estates-based Sears notified the state last week of the closure ...