Small Business
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Des Plaines expands business incentive programs citywideApr 23, 2014 1:01 am - Des Plaines is expanding its business incentive programs that until now have been restricted to downtown businesses. The programs will offer grants for eligible business...
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Palatine restaurant enters hot dog hall of fameApr 22, 2014 1:01 am - Hot Dog Richie's was inducted into the Vienna Beef Hot Dog Hall of Fame at a ceremony held Tuesday at the Palatine restaurant. "Hot dog stands outlive the national avera...
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Dead 12,000 years, Magdalenian Woman's makeover beginsApr 22, 2014 1:00 am - This woman who has everyone so excited, where is her head? “It's in my Subaru Forester, riding in the back seat with the seat belt,” says anthropologist JP Brown, conser...
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Hoffman entrepreneur raises bar with new non-alcoholic drink productApr 21, 2014 1:01 am - Adam Leja, 30, of Hoffman Estates is founder of the organic lemon drink, Lemonesse, which is bottled in Geneva. It took a serious car accident involving a drunken driver...
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Try selling your solution, not your productApr 21, 2014 1:00 am - Not quite random thoughts about small businesses: • Remember what you're selling, which for the more successful among us most often is a solution to a customer's p...
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Mentors help minority companies accelerate growthApr 20, 2014 6:11 am - NEW YORK - Mel Gravely says his construction company might not exist today if he didn't have mentors to guide it. Gravely's company, TriVersity, joined a program called ...
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Customers hit with expensive Del Taco billApr 19, 2014 1:01 am - SANTA PAULA, Calif. - What was supposed to be a cheap bite at Del Taco turned out to be small fortune for some Southern California customers. About 150 people who ordere...
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'The Donut Drop' coming to Rosemont shopping centerApr 17, 2014 1:00 am - Doughnut lovers in the Rosemont area will soon have a new store at which to indulge, whether they're set on an old-fashioned favorite, or have a taste for something new ...
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Palatine council OKs plans for four businessesApr 15, 2014 1:01 am - Four businesses - a limousine service, a day spa, an optometry office and a dog groomer - had their petitions to establish themselves in Palatine or move to a new locati...
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Des Plaines investors hear business pitches from studentsApr 14, 2014 11:00 pm - Middle school students from Des Plaines Elementary School District 62 recently pitched their business ideas to a panel of investors at the Young Entrepreneur Academy's I...