Small Business
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Elgin Tower Building tenants moving out after water leakJan 15, 2014 4:30 am - The iconic Elgin Tower Building — whose sale to a Wisconsin-based company is still pending — is down to six tenants, after a water leak last Friday prompted two tenants ...
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Elgin’s On the Side closes after a yearJan 14, 2014 10:25 am - What seemed like a popular eatery in downtown Elgin closed abruptly Tuesday after being in business for a little more than a year. Tom Creighton, owner of On the Side Re...
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Single mom uses education to turn life around in a yearJan 14, 2014 4:30 am - Last January, Lindsay Beckman was struggling after a series of low-paying jobs. The single mom was grateful that she could bring her two young daughters to the office of...
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Prospect Hts. approves sale of piece of arena landJan 13, 2014 8:22 pm - The Prospect Heights City Council agreed Monday to sell just over 2 acres and a 31,000-square-foot building it still owns from the failed arena project of the 1990s. St...
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Adult ‘snow day’ at Gibby’s pairs wine with chocolateJan 13, 2014 10:46 am - The kids had their turn this month. Now it’s time for the parents to have a snow day. Gibby’s Wine Den along Randall Road in Geneva is hosting an “adult snow day” at 7 p...
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Store manager starts her new year off rightJan 13, 2014 4:00 am - Yesterday, New Year’s Eve Day, while returning from a luncheon, my carpool rider and I began discussing our family’s New Year’s Day traditions. In my family, we always m...
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Online purse-making business gets celebrity attentionJan 13, 2014 4:00 am - Aileen Parks of Lake in the Hills has turned a hobby into a business that now reaches celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival, the Primetime Emmys, the Wendy Williams Sh...
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Angel group founders share insights, investment criteriaJan 13, 2014 4:00 am - Is there a business owner who at some point hasn't dreamed of angel financing — a wealthy individual or group of investors who will shower money on the entrepreneur's ob...
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How to get ahead in business with a short resumeJan 12, 2014 5:48 am - NEW YORK — Hey twentysomethings, dreaming of trading in the safety of a regular paycheck to start your own business? There’s no secret sauce. Instead, founders of three ...
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New low-cost vet clinic open in downtown ElginJan 10, 2014 3:28 pm - Alone on Friday morning in her new vet clinic in downtown Elgin, Debra Rykoff worked quietly and methodically on her patients — 13 mostly well-behaved cats that needed s...