Small Business
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Waiting game: Why small businesses won't hireJun 01, 2014 6:30 am - NEW YORK - Even as the economy extends its growth and small businesses slowly add jobs, most owners are still holding off on hiring. Small businesses have not been hirin...
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Barrington area meets new District 220 superintendentMay 31, 2014 8:00 am - Barrington Area Unit District 220's newly appointed Superintendent Brian Harris wasted no time Friday getting reacquainted with the community he served as an assistant p...
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Rolling Meadows chamber hands out awardsMay 30, 2014 5:30 am - The Rolling Meadows Chamber of Commerce handed out six awards Thursday night its 2014 Circle of Success Recognition Dinner. "We are proud to call Rolling Meadows home," ...
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Glen Ellyn's new French market opens June 8May 30, 2014 1:01 am - Glen Ellyn shoppers will have a new option this summer when the village's French market premieres on June 8 in the Crescent/Glenwood parking lot near Prospect Avenue. T...
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House OKs small-business tax creditsMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers have advanced a plan to expand tax credits to small businesses with the goal of creating jobs in areas of high unemployment and poverty....
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Schaumburg Farmers Market opens June 6May 29, 2014 1:01 am - Schaumburg's Farmers Market will open for the season on Friday, June 6 and run every Friday through Oct. 31 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market is located at 190 S. Roselle...
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From New York to Hoffman, engineer opts for baking breadMay 26, 2014 5:00 am - Chris Wu went from helping to construct major buildings in New York to baking bread in Hoffman Estates. He and his wife Heather opened the Great Harvest Bread Co. in Ma...
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Geneva's Bike Medic of Geneva rolls into its 20th yearMay 26, 2014 5:00 am - An interview with Mike Palombi, owner of The Bike Medic based in Geneva. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: I provide bicycle repair and maintenance by appo...
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Owner mines LinkedIn for connections, prospectsMay 26, 2014 5:00 am - Ned Miller is a LinkedIn believer, calling the business social media site “a God send for the small business owner.” Miller, though, doesn't use the social media site to...
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Clothes Mentor opens in Algonquin and BataviaMay 25, 2014 11:00 pm - There is a new business along the Randall Road corridor where women can sell clothes they no longer wear, no longer fit into, or just never liked. And then other women c...