Small Business
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Restaurants are a business, just not YOUR businessMay 07, 2025 8:34 am - As long as I have been in the hospitality industry, I have never understood the guest who comes to a restaurant and then insists on ordering an item that’s not on the menu.
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‘This is what we feed our families’: Oxtail Market, offering pasture-raised beef opens in LibertyvilleMay 06, 2025 6:33 pm - Oxtail Market, a quality meat store offering pasture-raised, hand-cut, flash-frozen and vacuum-sealed meats, just opened in strip center on Peterson Road in Libertyville.
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Restaurant with cricket simulators could move into former Buca di Beppo site in WheelingMay 06, 2025 9:16 am - A restaurant equipped with cricket simulators could replace the shuttered Buca di Beppo in Wheeling.
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Buffalo Grove planners considering golf school expansion, Indian grocerMay 05, 2025 4:41 pm - Buffalo Grove’s planning and zoning commission will hear requests Wednesday for an expansion of an indoor golf training facility and a new Indian grocer.
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Stronger Together: Business Service Organizations Join Forces to Support EntrepreneursMay 05, 2025 4:08 pm - To meet the capital needs of small businesses, service organizations must be creative in expanding their impact and improving outcomes. This moment presents an opportunity for leaders across the small business ecosystem to join forces and better serve entrepreneurs.
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Cary’s Breaking Bread teams with Wheeling bakery to sell fresh bread, desserts
May 05, 2025 2:40 pm - Breaking Bread Catering and Deli in Cary, known for its sandwiches, has partnered with a bakery from Wheeling to sell fresh loaves of bread and desserts.
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New Italian restaurant Florio’s now open in Crystal Lake, aims to be ‘upscale and friendly’
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As Small Business Week begins, Cook County small business owners remain positiveMay 03, 2025 1:45 pm - National Small Business Week celebrates the impact small businesses have on the U.S. economy and communities, which includes employing almost half the workers and generating half the gross domestic product of the country.
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‘Nowhere to turn’: Small businesses dependent on imports from China are feeling more desperate
May 03, 2025 1:32 pm - The Trump administration raised tariffs on goods from China to 145% in early April. Since then, small business owners who depend on imports from China to survive have become increasingly desperate as they eye dwindling inventory and skyrocketing invoices.
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Small business strategies for tackling the 2025 SBA lending landscapeMay 03, 2025 1:30 pm - With interest rates still elevated, economic policies shifting, and new technologies reshaping the loan process, small business owners are learning to navigate a complex financing environment.