Business Columns
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State's video gambling revenues outpace casinos for first timeOct 17, 2017 1:00 am - Video gambling is now more profitable than casino gambling for Illinois. The state made $296 million from the machines during the 2017 fiscal year that ended June 30. Me...
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Feder: WBBM Newsradio to beam from Bloomingdale?Oct 16, 2017 1:00 am - Could Chicago's top-rated AM radio station be giving up its 50,000-watt broadcasting power? That may be the result if CBS Radio moves the antenna of all-news WBBM 780 AM...
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Your succession plan may need tweakingOct 16, 2017 1:00 am - The intensity will vary, but the thought probably has been in and out of your mind from those early entrepreneurial days: Who is the best person to take over the busines...
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How to dodge your supervisor's side-hustle sales pitchOct 15, 2017 7:15 am - Q: My supervisor is involved in a side hustle for a multilevel marketing program. I have bought things from this person in the past, partly because of our work connectio...
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How to dodge your supervisor's side hustleOct 15, 2017 1:00 am - Q: My supervisor is involved in a side hustle for a multilevel marketing program. I have bought things from this person in the past, partly because of our work connectio...
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Zebra's 'glue' brings together data for quick business decisionOct 13, 2017 1:00 am - Trying to figure out the tsunami of data that technology throws at your business can be daunting — and many times overwhelming. Yet using that information to act fast on...
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Feder: Chicago native Tia Ewing joins WFLD's "Good Day Chicago"Oct 12, 2017 1:00 am - Chicago native Tia Ewing joined WFLD's "Good Day Chicago" as a freelance reporter, Robert Feder writes. Also, ProPublica Illinois, the independent, nonprofit investigati...
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Why only Cook County homeowners are getting a bigger tax exemptionOct 11, 2017 5:30 am - Cook County homeowners are getting a property tax break that their counterparts in other counties aren't. The $7,000 homeowners exemption and $5,000 senior citizen exemp...
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Beacons enlighten show planners with vital dataOct 11, 2017 1:00 am - At any trade show, information that's important to your business flows as thick as the people navigating your exhibit tables and conference rooms. Catching that informa...
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Feder: Producer Tom Weinberg chronicles perilous journeyOct 10, 2017 1:00 am - Tom Weinberg, the veteran Chicago producer who created "Image Union" and founded the Media Burn Independent Video Archive, has a new book out about his life's greatest a...