Retail and Shopping
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No sales tax break on school supplies this yearAug 05, 2023 1:00 am - If it seems like you are spending more on school supplies than you did last year, you aren't imagining things. There's no state sales tax holiday this year and families...
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Party to celebrate a decade of Fashion Outlets in RosemontAug 04, 2023 6:00 am - Tuesday, Aug. 1, marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of Fashion Outlets of Chicago, when throngs of bargain shoppers packed into the new two-story, 530,000-square...
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Focus begins second phase at Fox ValleyJul 31, 2023 11:00 pm - AURORA - Focus, in collaboration with development partner Atlantic Residential and property owner Centennial, said it has begun the next phase of construction at the thr...
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Yep, gas prices in the suburbs are back over $4 a gallon, with some exceptionsJul 31, 2023 1:00 am - It's enough to make you nostalgic for the good old days of last week when regular gas cost an average of $3.80 a gallon in Illinois. As of Monday, rates averaged $4 a ga...
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Summer is a wild ride for ice cream shop ownersJul 30, 2023 1:00 am - It's the dead of winter and you have a hankering for a treat from your favorite local ice cream spot. Then it hits you. That popular ice cream shop closed for the seas...
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U.S. price and wage increases slow further in the latest signs of cooling inflation
Jul 28, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Signs that inflation pressures in the United States are steadily easing emerged Friday in reports that consumer prices rose in June at their slowest pace in...
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Adidas to release second batch of Yeezy sneakers after breakup with Ye
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Green acres: How an insurance man taught himself to be a suburban farmer and store ownerJul 23, 2023 1:00 am - Cliff McConville learned to milk cows the quintessential 21st century way: from a YouTube video. Working from home in 2011 for a Texas-based company, the then-48-year-o...
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Grow business: Cannabis cultivator and product manufacturer finds a home in the suburbsJul 23, 2023 1:00 am - You've probably seen the adult-use cannabis dispensaries that have popped up around Illinois since the state legalized recreational marijuana use in January 2020. Today...
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Abt hosts first pizza cook-off for charityJul 19, 2023 11:00 pm - GLENVIEW - Abt Electronics with host its first pizza cook-off for charity from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, July 23. Three chefs from some of Chicago's top pizza restaurant...