Small Business
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Court denies reorganization: Kirk Homes ordered to liquidateOct 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Kirk Homes CEO John Carroll's fight to keep the beleaguered builder's doors open ended Tuesday when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ordered it to liquidate. The Streamwood...
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Hanover Park business opensOct 02, 2009 11:00 pm - A new print shop has opened in Hanover Park. SWS Imprints, located at 7227 Olde Salem Circle in the Olde Salem Center shopping center, offers 350,000 different products ...
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Plan your marketing comeback before full recoverySep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm making two assumptions: 1) A recovery is reasonably close. 2) You'll have to step-up your marketing to get your business back on track. But before you gussy up a new...
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Vignette Home Decor helps with staging, rearrangingSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Just three years ago Vignette Home Decor was a fledgling home-based business working with new clients looking to decorate and plan their homes. Over the years the busine...
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Hampshire resident reflects on his half-century of driving a truckSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Back in 1959, when some of the roads around Hampshire were still gravel and Bob Kudlicki's sons were still babies, the young father climbed into his four-year-old Chevy ...
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Consignment store geared for the family opens in LibertyvilleSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - The owners of a new consignment shop in Libertyville are having a tough time keeping North Face fleece jackets and Under Armor shirts on the racks. And home accessories ...
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Local small businesses make contactsSep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - They sat at tiny bistro tables, just the two of them. They talked about what they do. They exchanged phone numbers. And they were in a room with hundreds of others, all...
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Barrington man grows business that manages local wine festivalsSep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Scott Janess of Barrington said he wanted to be just like Jerry Maguire. Sports was on his mind. Being a manager. But wine? Well, it didn't occur to him until later that...
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Longtime candy maker sticks to basicsSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Kay Giglio started making hand-dipped chocolate nearly 60 years ago to give as gifts to family and friends at Christmas time. Now 82, she's still making chocolate -- an...
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European style center-stage at new Grayslake deliAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - An Italian family recently opened an authentic European deli in Grayslake. Highlighting old family recipes, Mamma D's Deli & Pizzeria operates at 15 Commerce Drive, Sui...