Small Business
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Developing a stage presence can help you sell an ideaDec 03, 2012 5:00 am - Jeanie Carter teaches stage presence — a potentially important difference-maker as you walk confidently to the podium, shake the hand of the individual who introduced yo...
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Barrington’s Catlow theater about to go digitalDec 03, 2012 4:30 am - Nearly 1,400 supporters this summer helped give Barrington’s 85-year-old Catlow theater the chance for many more birthdays, and its owners are expecting to give the comm...
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Holiday chocolate sales to benefit McHenry health clinicDec 02, 2012 10:25 am - Katie Anderson-Tedder first learned about the Family Health Partnership Clinic last year as a reporter working on an assignment. The clinic serves under- and uninsured ...
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Richard Dent talks about life after football, concussionsDec 02, 2012 4:53 am - “The Sackman’s comin’, I’m your man Dent. If the quarterback’s slow, he’s gonna get bent.” — Richard Dent’s introduction in “Super Bowl Shuffle” video by 1985 Chicago Be...
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Indiana financier gets 50 years for swindling clientsNov 30, 2012 5:02 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana financier and former chief executive of National Lampoon convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million was sentenced Friday to 50 ...
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McDonald’s starved for ideas as Burger King lures dinersNov 30, 2012 4:40 pm - McDonald’s, which earlier this month reported its first monthly global same-store sales decline in nine years, hasn’t introduced enough new menu items to keep U.S. custo...
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Schaumburg shop has global array of artworkNov 30, 2012 1:41 pm - Schaumburg isn’t just the place suburban Christmas shoppers flock to for big-ticket items on Black Friday, it’s also the home of some hidden holiday treasures from all o...
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Glen Ellyn frozen yogurt shop to hold grand openingNov 30, 2012 12:13 pm - GLEN ELLYN — SkinnySweet Frozen Yogurt, a family-owned small business, is the first self-serve frozen yogurt shop in Glen Ellyn and is hosting a grand opening on Saturda...
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Cicero man dies in Wheeling chemical tankNov 29, 2012 12:00 pm - A member of a cleaning crew died Thursday after falling into a vertical storage tank that contained a chemical solvent, Wheeling authorities said. The accident occurred ...
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Another proposal for vacant land in Prospect Heights diesNov 29, 2012 10:45 am - Anyone who thinks political conflicts end with elections has not spent much time in Prospect Heights. Mayor Nick Helmer and Dolly Vole, the incumbent he defeated in 2011...