Small Business
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Brutally cold weather can complicate things, even for the deadJan 07, 2014 4:30 am - In my Hoosier homeland where a 90-year-old family friend was to be buried Monday in a rural cemetery, snow, bitter cold and roads blocked by drifts conspired to postpone...
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Forgetting the cold for a few hoursJan 06, 2014 4:29 pm - What do you do when it’s minus 18 degrees out? How about roller skating? Kids and parents got a chance to temporarily forget how cold it was outside Monday, as they ska...
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Tickets available for Arlington Hts. chamber dinnerJan 06, 2014 4:28 pm - Tickets are available for the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce’s 67th annual Installation and Awards Dinner, to be held 5:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at Europea...
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Big Chef Burgers opens Tuesday in SchaumburgJan 06, 2014 4:04 pm - Tuesday sees the opening of Schaumburg’s first new restaurant of 2014 — Big Chef Burgers. The “Big Chef” is 6-foot 6-inch, Italian-born Cristiano Bassani, who became exe...
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New Year a time to show entrepreneurial flairJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - With virtually the entire year before us — the proverbial blank canvas — what entrepreneurial initiatives shall we undertake? What will we let our creative impulses do t...
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Military surgeon works here, while serving our countryJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - James Cole Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps to become a doctor and later traded in the high-tech operating rooms for tours of duty with a Marine Corps reconnaissan...
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Art studio thriving in MundeleinJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - An interview with Dawn Drury, owner of Just Your Art Creativity Center in Mundelein. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: Just Your Art Creativity Center is a ...
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A look at what 2014 may hold for small businessesJan 05, 2014 5:32 am - NEW YORK — What stresses small business owners the most? Our conversations with them and the research we come across suggest it’s a lack of clarity. Well, there’s no sma...
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Mundelein jewelry store likely not refunding customersJan 04, 2014 4:05 pm - Chances are customers of a Mundelein jewelry store will not be getting refunds for about $151,000 worth of purchases, although not all is lost yet. Rich Bennett, owner o...
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St. Charles religious store owner contemplates futureJan 04, 2014 10:37 am - Even in good times, it’s not likely you could describe Angel Kisses in St. Charles as a robust business. But it served what one might describe as worldwide purpose in se...