Small Business
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Famed Kung Fu grandmaster coming to suburbs for rare Western appearanceSep 17, 2024 9:28 pm - Great Grandmaster Leung Ting, a famed martial artist with ties to Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, is coming from Hong Kong to the suburbs this week share his knowledge with local students.
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Back from the dead? Haunted house helps revive long vacant nightclub space in West ChicagoSep 15, 2024 4:45 pm - 5 Points Haunted House — a commercial offshoot of the Lehman Manor Halloween attraction run for years by the McCabe family outside their West Chicago home — will open Oct. 4 in the former site of Club 38 and Synergy nightclubs on Roosevelt Road.
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High drug prices hurt small businessesSep 15, 2024 5:30 am - Politicians talk a lot about small businesses during elections, and this has certainly been a hot topic as the race for our next president enters the final stretch. As c...
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The Biz Week That Was: Movie house turns 100, business maven moves onSep 15, 2024 5:23 am - ‘Old-school downtown USA’: Antioch Theatre celebrating 100 years and counting Over the past century, the Antioch Theatre has been down but never out as a simple fixt...
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‘Our bread and butter’: Ideal Bakery owner details plan for merger with Elk Grove Village’s iconic JaroschSep 13, 2024 1:21 pm - Ask Chris Kowal why he and his family wanted to come to this country, and his answer is similar to that of other immigrants, then and now. “For a better life,” said Kowal, owner and operations manager at Ideal Bakery, an Eastern European wholesale bakery that just opened its new facility in Elk Grove Village.
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‘The place to come and eat’: Rosebud Steakhouse, Moretti’s opening soon in WheelingSep 13, 2024 12:09 pm - Two much-anticipated restaurants should open in Wheeling soon. Rosebud Steakhouse is set to begin welcoming customers Oct. 1, and Moretti’s is hoping to open by Thanksgiving.
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‘A lasting impact’: Schaumburg Business Association President Lisa Gilbert heads to Illinois Restaurant AssociationSep 12, 2024 2:54 pm - Lisa Gilbert, the fifth president of the 23-year-old Schaumburg Business Association, will depart the organization today for a membership position with the Chicago-based Illinois Restaurant Association.
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Midyear pit stop: How to rev up your company from good to better to bestSep 11, 2024 10:00 am - Midyear is the exact right time for businesses to make a pit stop. Pull over and consider what good business practices and strategies are for the remaining laps of the year. Also, pause to think about what better practices and strategies could be, and what best practices might look like.
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New owner of former Jimmy’s in Des Plaines plans to offer ‘upscale brunch’Sep 09, 2024 11:45 am - A second location of The Brunchery in Lincoln Park seems destined for the former Jimmy’s restaurant and sports bar in Des Plaines.
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The Biz Week That Was: A potential sales tax hike, new senior living, and gourmet cookies among the highlightsSep 08, 2024 5:48 am - Kildeer seeking local sales tax hike to offset loss of Best Buy, other factors Kildeer lost its top sales tax producer when Best Buy closed earlier this year. Anothe...