Small Business
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Facing financial hardship amid COVID-19 crisis, West Dundee sports bar preparing to close for goodMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - The Chubby Bullfrog in West Dundee will shut down for good this summer, its owner announced Wednesday, saying his business will be unable to recover from the financial i...
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'We Care Kits' from Naperville shopsMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - The Downtown Naperville Alliance has created "We Care Kits" with favorite items from several member businesses to bring joy to homes and revenue back to local shops. Ea...
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Bars and restaurants can serve outdoors as soon as May 29; golf, other restrictions to easeMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - Restaurants and bars, dealt a huge economic hit by COVID-19, can offer outdoor dining as soon as May 29, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday as state lawmakers convened to...
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Kendall: How'd you do with your reopening? Or are you still doing?May 19, 2020 1:00 am - Whether you celebrated your business' grand opening many years back or just a year ago, chances are you weren't planning on a Reopening in 2020. Whether or not you've re...
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Grocer offers Libertyville-area restaurants room to manueverMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - Angela Xu opened a handmade dumpling restaurant in the Libertyville Crossings strip mall on Milwaukee Avenue last November, and like scores of other restaurants in town,...
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Craving something sweet? Cookie Dough Bliss coming to Third Street in GenevaMay 14, 2020 6:00 am - When Kirstie Geyer of St. Charles says she always enjoyed baking treats and dreamed of operating her own business when she was younger, it should be noted she's only 26 ...
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Batavia costume shop is All Dressed Up with nowhere to goMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - Julane Sullivan's business is All Dressed Up, and right now it has nowhere to go. Literally, not figuratively. Sullivan has owned the Batavia costumery All Dressed Up ...
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Wauconda restaurant raising money for Make-A-Wish FoundationMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - A Wauconda restaurant is raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation through Saturday. Bulldogs Grill, 122 Main St., will donate 5% of its sales from this week to ...
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Kendall: Here's a piece of good news, but you'll have to reach for itMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - Some days the coronavirus news seems better, but on other days not so much. Today we're going with a piece of good (but, please note, nonmedical) news that might make li...
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DuPage County launches forgivable loan program to help small businessesMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - Small businesses in DuPage that have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic soon could seek help from a new county program. The DuPage County Board on Tuesday agreed t...