Small Business
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ServiceMaster Restoration by Simons adds Lake County to its service areaFeb 25, 2024 6:06 am - ServiceMaster Restoration by Simons, a Chicago-based provider of professional fire and water damage restoration and specialty cleaning services in the Chicago area, is ad...
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Coffee Break: Maggie Gerth, founder of Props Luggage, LLCFeb 25, 2024 5:00 am - Name: Maggie Gerth Title: CEO and Founder Company: Props Luggage, LLC Address: 3 Grant Square No. 158, Hinsdale Phone: (630) 248-2136 Website: Propsluggage.com Industry:...
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Elgin Vintage to hold grand opening SaturdayFeb 22, 2024 12:18 pm - Elgin Vintage, which operated as a pop up in downtown Elgin last summer, will hold a grand opening from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday for its permanent location in the same sto...
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‘Like a candy store’ for tea: Elgin’s Steep N’ Clay sells everything for the perfect cup, down to the potFeb 22, 2024 11:45 am - The shelves at Steep N’ Clay in downtown Elgin present an astounding array of teas with labels on the jars that excite curiosity about their contents — Eternity, Garden Gold, and Black Beauty. This only scratches the surface of the inventory though.
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Two planned Des Plaines restaurants get city grants for improvementsFeb 21, 2024 2:30 pm - A pair of restaurants coming to Des Plaines have been awarded grants to help pay for necessary remodeling and other improvements. The city council on Tuesday approved a $...
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VivaValet, age in place support, expands in Cook, DuPage, Kane and Lake countiesFeb 21, 2024 12:02 pm - VivaValet Expands to serve the greater Chicago area, pioneering a new era of aging in place On Wednesday, Feb. 21, VivaValet announced a meaningful expansion of its uniqu...
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MainStreet Libertyville honors volunteers and business owners at 2024 annual meetingFeb 19, 2024 4:01 pm - MainStreet Libertyville recently honored its members, volunteers, and sponsors at its 2024 Annual Meeting at O’Toole’s Libertyville. As a volunteer-based, 501(c)3 nonpro...
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Business owners: Get your ducks in a rowFeb 18, 2024 5:03 pm - There is so much going on in the world that business owners today are faced with, and even more things to digest to steer the course of their business to success. These ...
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Increased mandates on small businesses can be harmful to local economies, group saysFeb 18, 2024 6:00 am - Small and Main Street businesses drive our local economies. In Illinois, 88% of businesses have 19 or fewer employees and 96% have less than 100 employees. These same businesses employ more than 1.6 million workers.
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New law requires transparency in company ownershipFeb 18, 2024 5:57 am - An abundance of illegal activity is conducted in the shadows through small shell companies with fake owners, few employees and little legitimate reported income. This ha...