Small Business
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Fuller's Car Wash coming to ElginSep 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Just in time to wash all of the impending salt and slush off your vehicle, a new car wash is set to open along the Randall Road corridor this fall. Fuller's Car Wash...
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Pete Miller's Wheeling restaurant sold for $2.4 millionSep 23, 2016 1:00 am - The recently shuttered Pete Miller's Steak House in Wheeling has been sold to a private investor for about $2.4 million Marcus & Millichap in Oakbrook Terrace, the comme...
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Wheeling's Platinum Pools earns prestigious awardSep 22, 2016 1:00 am - Wheeling-based Platinum Pools surpassed its peers to win a prestigious industry design award from The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals. The company received an AP...
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Palatine's Harrington Manor expands to second locationSep 20, 2016 11:00 pm - Since 2000, Harrington Manor, 16 S. Bothwell St., has been the go-to destination in Palatine for home décor and accessories for the holidays and year-round. The busines...
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How a Naperville man got hooked on fly tyingSep 19, 2016 6:00 am - When you think of fly fishing, what type of fly lures do you picture? Small ones, about the size of a dime? While these are very common for trout fishing, there has been...
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Restaurant, microbrewery preparing to open in Glen Ellyn's Schmid storeSep 19, 2016 1:00 am - Jon With prefers the "classics." His new restaurant and microbrewery, Two Hound Red, is preparing to open in downtown Glen Ellyn next year, pending village approvals. An...
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Investors take Matt's Cookies to new level, aim for new packaging and marketsSep 19, 2016 1:00 am - For about 35 years, Matt's Cookies has been such a favorite on grocery store shelves that the Wheeling baker has been producing about 300,000 cookies daily with about a ...
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Pro boxer builds Palatine business, careerSep 18, 2016 1:00 am - When Achour Esho left his native Syria as a youngster, he never expected one day to become a professional boxing champion and then a business owner. The founder of Palat...
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What is the Prairie Food Co-op? Learn this weekend in LombardSep 15, 2016 5:30 am - Chances are, if you live in Lombard, you've seen the name Prairie Food Co-op somewhere. Still have no idea what it is? The group is hosting a community meeting from 2:3...
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Top suburban entrepreneurs honored at Business Ledger eventSep 15, 2016 1:00 am - It was an evening dedicated to risk taking and overcoming failure as 19 local entrepreneurs were honored during the 17th Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, hosted...