Small Business
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Tiny offices provide peace and quiet for stay-at-home workers, remote learnersAug 31, 2020 5:30 am - It took a few months, but a Lake Forest family recently came to a hard realization about pandemic living. "Our house seemed big when we used to leave it and go places," ...
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Despite state OK, Rosemont flea market gives up on 2020Aug 30, 2020 1:00 am - Following months of negotiations, the proprietors of Wolff's Flea Market in Rosemont secured state approval to reopen, but with that consent came new rules they argue ar...
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A wish fulfilled: Mia's Wish skin care store now open on Third Street in GenevaAug 28, 2020 6:00 am - As a shopper along Third Street in Geneva, Maria Jucius admits she quickly became obsessed with the goal of someday opening a store along the popular retail strip. More ...
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Constable: All the news not fit to print makes newsrooms specialAug 28, 2020 5:30 am - We are in an age where fear, hatred and violence drag us down as we struggle with trying to make a living, overcome a deadly pandemic, grapple with the results of climat...
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Palatine woman follows her dream after losing jobAug 27, 2020 6:00 am - After losing her job due to COVID-19, a Palatine woman is taking a leap of faith and following her longtime dream by opening a print shop in Rolling Meadows. Shannon Tho...
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Kane County opens up millions in COVID-19 grants for local businesses, non-profitsAug 26, 2020 5:20 am - Up to $10 million in federal grants for Kane County businesses and not-for-profit organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are now available. The county board ap...
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Arlington Heights Park District OKs contract to buy Grandt's ShellAug 26, 2020 5:00 am - The Arlington Heights Park District has struck a deal to purchase the long-standing Grandt's Shell service station - a property it's sought for decades as part of a visi...
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Gas station could replace restaurant, vacant factory in MundeleinAug 26, 2020 1:00 am - A Mundelein restaurant and a vacant industrial building may make way for a gas station and convenience store at a high-profile location. A developer wants to build a Tho...
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Caring in Action: Naperville-area cleaning service teams up with nonprofit to help cancer patientsAug 25, 2020 6:00 am - Cancer treatments and cleaning don't go hand-in-hand. Dealing with chemotherapy or radiation, patients often lack the energy, strength or mobility to sanitize a kitchen...
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Flexibility more than just a mindset at new South Elgin stretching studioAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Being flexible as a mindset has become a way of life during pandemic times, but a new South Elgin business wants to help clients focus on the old-fashioned kind of physi...