Small Business
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Is it time to pat your back?Jul 09, 2018 1:00 am - Tom Caprel says there's no more cruise control for the owners of small and mid-size businesses. Even so, based on perceptions shared by Caprel and Ray Horn, two knowledg...
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Churros Y Chocolate serves up Mexican-style treatsJul 06, 2018 6:00 am - Everyone always raved about the churros at Vicky and Vince Ortiz' Mexican fast food restaurant. Vince had the dream of one day opening up his own churro shop featuring t...
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Arlington Park hosts Food Truck Festival July 7Jul 06, 2018 1:00 am - Arlington Park's 5th annual Food Truck Festival will feature more than 20 vendors in conjunction with Ride to the Million from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 7. This year's ...
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Downtown Palatine's EyebrWOW Performs Microblading ServicesJul 02, 2018 11:00 pm - Cindy Kircher, owner of downtown Palatine's eyebrow microblading studio, eyebrWOW at 21 N Brockway Street, Suite 204, didn't begin her professional career in the beauty ...
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Lincolnshire officials shelve plan to raise tax on theater ticketsJul 02, 2018 5:30 am - Lincolnshire trustees have shelved a plan to boost the tax on tickets for live theater productions in town. They were particularly moved by a letter from the Bricton Gro...
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Elgin ice cream man wants Hanover Park to lift its banJul 02, 2018 5:30 am - Four weeks ago, Jim Cremeens went to Glendale Heights to pick up the ice cream truck he drives in his retirement. Cremeens typically sells ice cream in his hometown of ...
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Who's in charge when you're not there?Jul 02, 2018 5:00 am - This column had its genesis when I, the client, called a service provider seeking what (to me) was some vital information. Unhappily, she was rolling along the highway t...
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Kids can help hunt for Waldo in area storesJun 30, 2018 1:00 am - Waldo is on the loose again this month in Naperville, Downers Grove and La Grange. The familiar character decked out in red and white stripes is hiding in more than 50 s...
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Buffalo Grove student entrepreneurs' Skunk Aid gets picked up by Bentley's Pet StuffJun 27, 2018 6:00 am - A business model developed through a think tank at Buffalo Grove High School continues to grow, even as its student entrepreneurs prepare to leave for college. As sophom...
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No one injured when SUV crashed into Lake Zurich salonJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - No one was injured when an SUV crashed into Couture 360 Salon in Lake Zurich at around 1 p.m. Tuesday. Brittany Szczesny, who works at the salon at 195 S. Rand Road, sai...