Small Business
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Hawaiian dancer's 'job' keeps her young, passionateSep 07, 2015 6:45 am - Gwen Adair Keake'akamai Kennedy knows she doesn't have a job, but a "job" - a passion that also pays, the good fortune to do what she loves on stages big and small, and ...
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Machining executive turns to podcasts to boost industrySep 06, 2015 8:00 am - When Jim Carr of Inverness decided to enter the family business, Carr Machine & Tool Inc. in Elk Grove Village, it took him in an unexpected direction in the machining i...
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Schaumburg library offers business programsSep 06, 2015 1:00 am - Programs offering valuable information to entrepreneurs are coming this month to the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg. All three p...
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Why Hackney's might be closing in Lake ZurichSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - Hackney's run of serving hamburgers on dark-rye bread and signature onion ring loaf might be ending after 46 years in Lake Zurich, a company official said Friday. Lake Z...
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W. Dundee art business moving - but only across riverSep 03, 2015 1:00 am - A downtown West Dundee art business is moving - but only across the river. Artisticology, an art studio that offers art workshops, open studio time and art therapy sess...
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Buffalo Grove's Maple Cafe masters the art of brunchSep 01, 2015 5:00 am - At some restaurants, brunch is often a highly scripted, predictable and ho-hum meal. But that's not the case at Maple Cafe, a recent newcomer in the Woodland Commons Sho...
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Small or larger, companies can win The Great GameAug 31, 2015 5:00 am - You don't really play The Great Game of Business. But if you accept its open book management concepts - that employees should know and understand company financials and ...
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Former Des Plaines resident knew how to turn cookies into profitAug 31, 2015 1:00 am - A former Des Plaines resident who helped expand Salerno cookies across the country — and into the Girl Scouts' product line — and later led the Maurice Lenell cookie com...
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Elgin warehouse reborn as 'dream wedding space'Aug 30, 2015 11:00 pm - Exposed brick walls, wood-beamed ceilings, plank floors, the rough-hewed charm of something old made new again - venues like that dot the landscape in Chicago. But that ...
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Girls Who Code founder started her volunteerism in SchaumburgAug 30, 2015 7:00 am - Reshma Saujani's roots for activism and volunteerism started while she was a student at Schaumburg High School. That's where she helped to create the Prejudice Reduction...