Small Business
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Obama's health care aid to small firms disappointsMay 30, 2012 9:00 am - WASHINGTON — It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Barack Obama's health care law that gets s...
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Harper, Rep. Crespo to offer jobseeker assistanceMay 29, 2012 3:33 pm - Beginning June 14, state Rep. Fred Crespo and the Harper College Career Stimulus Program will team up every Thursday to help jobseekers with their search and their resum...
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Mt. Prospect encourages residents to open shopsMay 29, 2012 5:30 am - While working for more than a decade in restaurants and bars all over the Chicago area, Mount Prospect resident Esteban Aguado dreamed of one day opening a place of his ...
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Batavia’s Kraft Plumbing celebrates 50 yearsMay 28, 2012 7:24 am - An interview with Bob Kraft, co-owner of K.W. Kraft & Sons Plumbing Contrators in Batavia. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: We are a plumbing contracting f...
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Two local businesses out-manage the economyMay 28, 2012 7:24 am - Let’s not debate the state of the economy. Instead, let’s discover how two very different local businesses, each dependent on discretionary spending by customers, succes...
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Overcomes disability to become award-winning CEOMay 28, 2012 7:15 am - As a child, Michael Alter said he was a struggling student, due to dyslexia. His third grade teacher even told his parents that “not every boy will go to Harvard...
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Mainstreet USA Rink in Streamwood closesMay 27, 2012 6:57 pm - A Streamwood staple is no longer. Mainstreet USA Roller Skating Center closed May 19 after struggling to keep up with taxes and bills, but that didn’t stop co-owner Stev...
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License rules weigh heavier on small business than taxesMay 27, 2012 7:42 am - WASHINGTON — To hear politicians tell it, the No. 1 barrier to small-business growth is taxes. Last year, House Speaker John Boehner rebutted Obama administration calls ...
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SBA head looks beyond loans to help small businessMay 26, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — When Karen Mills became head of the Small Business Administration in April 2009, the U.S. was in a recession and a credit crisis. It was hard, if not impossib...
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Residents, officials clash over Fresh Farms in WheelingMay 26, 2012 11:00 pm - Wheeling officials are delighted with the new Fresh Farms at Dundee Road and Milwaukee Avenue, saying the store has revitalized that corner and brought in more shoppers ...