Business Columns
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Advisory board role: Advice, not decision-makingFeb 12, 2018 4:00 am - Your choice: (1) An advisory board which, if it is typical, meets quarterly at dinner to listen and offer advice on issues raised by management or (2) what Cindy Burrell...
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Feder: WGN finds Suppelsa's replacement in PortlandFeb 12, 2018 12:00 am - A longtime news anchor from Portland, Oregon, is close to signing on for the top job at "Chicago's Very Own" WGN-Channel 9, sources tell Robert Feder. The post has been ...
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CEO from Wheaton shows you can be profitable and kindFeb 12, 2018 12:00 am - Kathleen Kenehan Henson of Wheaton knows first hand that things happen for a reason. Looking back, she realizes that if she didn't leave her post as a senior executive o...
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What if a nonprofit can't make payroll?Feb 11, 2018 12:00 am - Q: I am a day-care teacher for a nonprofit that serves limited-income families. Every two weeks, we receive our pay by paper check and can cash the checks only at the ba...
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Feder: Sun-Times cuts columnist Bill ZweckerFeb 09, 2018 12:00 am - Bill Zwecker, one of Chicago's premier celebrity columnists and entertainment reporters for decades, is the latest marquee personality to be forced out at the Sun-Times,...
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Feder: WGN Radio revises weekend sports rosterFeb 08, 2018 12:00 am - While WGN AM 720 continues to negotiate for Chicago White Sox radio rights, the Tribune Broadcasting news/talk station is adjusting its weekend sports lineup, Robert Fed...
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Feder: L.A. Times sale would cut Chicago ties after 18 yearsFeb 07, 2018 12:00 am - If the reported $500 million deal goes through to sell the Los Angeles Times to biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, it would mark the end of the paper's rocky relat...
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Major bike brands bring their standouts to ChicagoFeb 06, 2018 10:00 pm - Here are some of the motorcycles the major manufacturers will be showing off at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in Rosemont Feb. 9-11. 2018 Harley-Davi...
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Feder: DNAinfo alums to launch Block Club Chicago news siteFeb 06, 2018 12:00 am - Three editors from the former DNAinfo Chicago are reuniting to start up a new neighborhood news website to be funded by reader subscriptions, Robert Feder writes. Block ...
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Sorority experience pays off for young entrepreneurFeb 05, 2018 4:00 am - Advertising works, at least enough to prompt me to call Lauren Skiniotes and ask if her Facebook ad featuring a line of young feet in tap shoes and offering a free lesso...