Retail and Shopping
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Retail sales up 0.6% in August from July even as tariffs hurt jobs and lead to price hikes
Sep 16, 2025 8:29 am - Shoppers increased their spending at a better-than-expected pace in August from July, helped by back-to-school shopping, even as President Donald Trump’s tariffs are starting to hurt the job market and lead to price increases.
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Cordogan’s Pianoland celebrates 75 years of family-owned success in a changing piano industrySep 15, 2025 11:28 pm - Cordogan's Pianoland, the Midwest's largest piano store, is celebrating its 75th anniversary as a family-owned business that has survived and thrived through an industry of dramatic change.
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Aurora antique furniture store moving to Batavia
Sep 12, 2025 1:00 pm - Antique and vintage furniture store Warehouse 55 will move to downtown Batavia next month after operating for six years in Aurora.
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New restaurants, shops to open in Yorktown Center in Lombard
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Conscious Cup to host open house Sept. 20Sep 11, 2025 10:34 pm - Conscious Cup Coffee Roasters will host an open house, featuring a raffle for a home espresso machine, on Saturday, Sept. 20, at its Coffee Roasting Works in Crystal Lake.
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‘It’s really pretty’: Heinen’s grocery store opens in NapervilleSep 10, 2025 4:05 pm - The fifth Heinen’s grocery store in the Chicago area opened Wednesday in Naperville with a packed parking lot and rave reviews. “I love it. It’s really pretty, and they have a really good selection of produce,” one Naperville mom said. Heinen’s is the rare family-owned and family-run grocery chain.
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‘This is what we need here’: Cluster of small shops proposed for MundeleinSep 09, 2025 1:38 pm - A community group has proposed Mundelein create a walkable marketplace of small shops for boutique clothiers, artists, bakers and other merchants.
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Gurnee Mills to expand retail mix with eight new offeringsSep 08, 2025 2:43 pm - Several new retailers offering food to entertainment to bargains will be joining the lineup at Gurnee Mills, the center announced Monday.
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The Biz Week That Was: Mall transformation, suburbs’ best sandwich shop, and economy doing better than expectedAug 30, 2025 1:10 pm - Next big step for Hawthorn Mall property redevelopment is waiting for green light to proceed The next big step in the ongoing transformation of the Hawthorn mall pro...