Small Business
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Mount Prospect renews tax break for Cummins-Allison Corp.Jan 22, 2014 12:41 pm - One of the reasons given by cities and villages in Cook County for offering property tax incentives under the Class 6B tax abatement program is the stimulating effect on...
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St. Charles to make bars get added permit to stay open past midnightJan 21, 2014 4:00 pm - It was late in 2012 when St. Charles aldermen nearly voted to roll back the closing time for downtown taverns to 1 a.m. Instead, city officials gave tavern owners a yea...
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Downtown Palatine street to receive faceliftJan 21, 2014 3:54 pm - The Palatine village council voted earlier this week to hire Bollinger Lach and Associates, a civil engineering firm based in Itasca, to design improvements to Wilson St...
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Geneva’s Great Harvest store closing Feb. 1Jan 21, 2014 12:52 pm - Marty Kane is fond of the T-shirt he wears while running his Geneva store: “Buy Our Bread ... We Knead the Dough.” But the punny saying reflects an unfunny truth: His Gr...
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Wheeling plans to limit video gambling sitesJan 20, 2014 9:12 pm - The Wheeling village board approved a new sit-down restaurant that will apply for a video gambling license with the state, but the board also plans to add ordinances to ...
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Palatine considers exception for florist signJan 20, 2014 8:05 pm - The Palatine village council decided to stay the execution of a plan to allow Kinsch Village Florist and Garden Center to install a sign on residential property near Pal...
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Popular Arlington Hts. book club brings authors to readersJan 20, 2014 5:07 am - Seating at Tuscan Market & Wine Shop in downtown Arlington Heights was at capacity last week, with more than 60 patrons packed into its intimate space. The occasion was ...
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South Elgin pancake house offers array of optionsJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - An interview with Dan Mataragas, owner of Sweet Berry Cafe in South Elgin. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: Sweet Berry Cafe offers an array of freshly mad...
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Entrepreneurial stress: ‘We do too much out of fear’Jan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Payroll to meet. Bills to pay. Checks to (hopefully) arrive. Sales calls to make. Emails to send. There’s stress to being an entrepreneur. It’s how we handle that stress...
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Credit union CEO to help Hispanics, younger peopleJan 20, 2014 4:00 am - Jose Garcia, president and CEO of Northwest Community Credit Union, has spent most of his career in finance and found his niche in credit unions, living by its philosoph...