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Des Plaines closer to creating local grocery sales tax

By Russell Lissau
Apr 08, 2025 12:57 pm - Des Plaines city council members on Monday overwhelmingly supported creating a local 1% sales tax on grocery items to offset the pending elimination of an identical state tax.
Huntley to begin construction of business incubator shops at Hackett House

By Claire O'Brien
Apr 07, 2025 1:18 pm - Construction on the incubator shops in downtown Huntley is about to begin.
St. Charles Spring Shop Crawl offers deals, specials at 19 local businesses

By Nicholas Lowe, St. Charles Business Alliance
Apr 04, 2025 10:38 pm - The 2025 St. Charles Spring Shop Crawl invites shoppers to visit 19 local businesses offering deals and promotions April 12-13. Shop and scan codes to enter a grand prize drawing.
Kids can collect eggs, take photos at Long Grove Bunny Hop

Submitted by Jody Grimaldi
Apr 03, 2025 1:27 pm - The Long Grove Bunny Hop will return April 19 to the village’s historic downtown. Families can take photos with the Easter Bunny, collect eggs at different booths and stops throughout the village and explore fire trucks.
‘This market has high potential’: Round Lake Beach shopping center sold, redevelopment planned

By Mick Zawislak
Mar 31, 2025 10:27 am - Round Lake Beach officials for the second time in recent weeks have announced planned reinvestments by out-of-town developers in a key commercial corridor.
Kroger blames Albertsons for merger’s demise in new court filings

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Mar 25, 2025 1:58 pm - Kroger is denying Albertsons’ claims that it didn’t do enough to ensure regulatory approval of the companies’ planned supermarket merger. In court papers filed Tuesday in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Kroger said Albertsons disregarded the companies’ merger agreement and worked secretly with a partner, C&S Wholesalers, to try to force Kroger to divest more stores to C&S.
Consumer confidence is sliding as Americans’ view of their financial futures slumps to a 12-year low

By MATT OTT
Mar 25, 2025 1:27 pm - U.S. consumer confidence continued its sharp 2025 decline as Americans’ views about their financial futures slumped to a 12-year low, driven by rising anxiety over tariffs and inflation.
Shop artisan and handmade products at Spring Fling Art Market at Itasca brewery

Submitted by John Streetz
Mar 25, 2025 12:30 pm - Shake off the winter blues and dive headfirst into creativity at the Spring Fling Art Market, returning to Church Street Brewing Company in Itasca from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 29.
Americans increased spending tepidly last month as anxiety over the economy takes hold

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Mar 17, 2025 1:36 pm - U.S. shoppers stepped up their spending just a bit in February after a sharp pullback the previous month, signaling that Americans are shopping more cautiously as concerns about the direction of the economy mount.
'Danish Viking blood is boiling.' Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too

By VANESSA GERA
Mar 17, 2025 12:57 pm - Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to avoid buying anything made in the United States. No more Coca-Cola, no more California Zinfandel wine or almonds.

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