Small Business
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Former Chicago Bear, wife start luxury spa in Vernon HillsAug 13, 2012 6:00 am - Ranee McGowanand her husband, former Chicago Bears safety Brandon McGowan, know there’s life after NFL football. And they proved that by opening businesses, including a ...
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Adapting advice makes Wheeling firm ‘better off’Aug 13, 2012 6:00 am - I was hooked as soon as I read Bruce Gillilan’s email. President of Simmons Engineering Corp., Wheeling, Gillilan wrote in June that he had “encountered one of your old ...
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Tax planning business continues to grow in Lake CountyAug 13, 2012 6:00 am - An interview with Robert Swartz, owner of Business Ways Inc. in Libertyville. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: I am an expert on US and international tax pl...
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Pet CPR class in Streamwood Aug. 18Aug 12, 2012 9:51 am - Animal Hospital of Streamwood will hold its next Pet CPR and First Aid class from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at the hospital, 904 E. Irving Park Road in Streamwood...
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Niagara Falls takes broad approach to draw peopleAug 11, 2012 11:00 pm - NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — In recent years, Niagara Falls has thrown open its doors to casino gambling, gay weddings and a tightrope walk that, until laws were relaxed, would...
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Woodfield not in Kuma's CornerAug 10, 2012 3:00 pm - Hype over the possibility of a Kuma's Corner restaurant opening in Schaumburg's Woodfield Mall was over before it really began Friday. The buzz was generated by reports ...
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Elgin could be home to food co-op by next yearAug 10, 2012 2:05 pm - A steering committee of about 10 people is working to start a cooperative grocery store in downtown Elgin by next summer. The goal is ambitious but members have reason t...
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Moving Picture: Gilberts trainer combines family, fitnessAug 10, 2012 10:00 am - Two years ago after her son John was born, Stephanie Murphy found herself in a tough spot. The Gilberts woman’s love of exercise was taking too much of a back seat to th...
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Arlington Heights kicks off Million Week with Mane Event, TasteAug 10, 2012 5:30 am - Arlington Heights fest comes a week early this year
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Farmers market celebrates 100 years in AuroraAug 09, 2012 10:50 am - One hundred years ago, Aurora reporters were busy previewing the city’s first farmers market that would bring growers with “vegetables of all kinds, fruits, eggs, poultr...