Retail and Shopping
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Deer Park Town Center gets new tenantsSep 25, 2025 2:23 pm - Deer Park Town Center is getting a new lineup of restaurants and retailers opening this year. The latest tenants include Toastique, LaserAway, Warby Parker and American Eagle.
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Schaumburg celebrates start of ‘Main Street’-like development of The District at VeridianSep 23, 2025 5:14 pm - Attendees of Tuesday’s groundbreaking ceremony for The District at Veridian, at the east end of Schaumburg’s former Motorola campus, got to see two months of progress on a nine-story apartment building above a ground-level restaurant and retail area.
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Algonquin Commons shopping center sold for $100M after revamp
Sep 23, 2025 2:53 pm - The Algonquin Commons shopping center has been sold to new owners about a year after it went on the market.
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The Biz Week That Was: A new vision for Hawthorn mall, maternity ward closing, and Bears stadium updatesSep 20, 2025 12:34 pm - ‘A substantially improved plan’: Second phase of Hawthorn mall transformation officially approved in Vernon Hills Changes allowing for what is described as an import...
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New children’s bookstore in Fox River Grove aims to conjure reading magic
Sep 16, 2025 2:03 pm - Former grade school English teacher and Crystal Lake resident Susan Kelly remembers how magical books were for her growing up. Now she’s aiming to pass on that same feeling in her newly opened independent children’s bookstore in Fox River Grove.
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Target steps up next-day parcel delivery as discounter tries to narrow gap with rivals
Sep 16, 2025 8:54 am - Target is expanding its next-day delivery of parcel shipments to 35 of the nation's top 60 metropolitan markets by the end of next month, marking 22 new cities this year, as the discount retailer aims to narrow the gap with the likes of Amazon.
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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.