Small Business
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What will you do when employees become caregivers?Jun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Your top salesman’s widowed mother went down with a broken hip. The one staffer your most important client listens to just got a call that her father suffered a stroke t...
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Men deny they tried to rob Vernon Hills groceryJun 09, 2011 12:00 am - Four men charged with trying to rob the owners of a Vernon Hills grocery store at gunpoint pleaded not guilty Thursday in Lake County circuit court. Chicago residents El...
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CME move threat puts focus on unpopular tax hikeJun 08, 2011 11:00 pm - The suggestion by the owner of two major futures exchanges that it could relocate jobs because of Illinois' business tax casts another spotlight on the unpopular increas...
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Rolling Meadows CEO: Small steps, big savingsJun 08, 2011 12:00 am - Making energy-saving improvements to your business — both in the structure and in your employees’ habits — can net sizable overall costs savings, an energy expert told A...
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Entrepreneurial centers bloom in suburbsJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - From a simple way to determine your entrepreneurial DNA and connect with similar business owners to possible development of a Fox Valley Entrepreneurship Center next yea...
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Owner: Marketing the biggest challenge to new businessJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - Q&A with Holly S. Monger, owner of HSM Insurance Consulting, Vernon Hills Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: I am a health claims consultant. I organize,...
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How to lower your company’s air conditioning billJun 05, 2011 6:30 am - NEW YORK — The government is predicting that it won’t be as hot this summer as it was last year. But you’ll probably still have the air conditioner going full blast at y...
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BofA launches set of small business charge cardsJun 05, 2011 6:30 am - Small businesses have a new tool to help them control spending: charge cards from Bank of America. Unlike credit cards, charge cards must be paid in full each month. The...
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Workers’ comp bill: businesses gain, doctors loseJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - Suburban businesses will be helped and suburban doctors and hospitals will be hurt as a result of the workers’ compensation reform bill passed by the state legislature, ...
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‘Men in Pink’ support Avon Walk for Breast CancerMay 31, 2011 12:00 am - Jim Leonard of Arlington Heights and Jim Bednar of Prospect Heights are good friends who share a common link: Both lost their mothers to breast cancer. Bednar was only 6...