Business Columns
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Glen Ellyn shop owner trades in life on the road for Main StreetJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - Shop owner trades in life on the road for downtown Glen Ellyn
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Small businesses have rare hiring advantageJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - This may be the year to hire. In fact, small businesses planning to bring new people on board this year seem likely to have an easier-than-usual time finding the employe...
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Small errors are big dangers to early retirementJan 17, 2016 5:12 am - Q: I am 52 years old, single, with no debt and no kids. The same company has employed me for 27 years. My current salary is $130,000 a year. I am very conservative with ...
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Unconventional winter road trip becomes a classicJan 11, 2016 10:00 pm - Displaying a classic car that is dirty is generally taboo. But when a vintage vehicle is covered in filth that's been accumulated over hundreds of miles on a journey acr...
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Vanishing Ink Tattoo Removal opens in St. CharlesJan 10, 2016 10:00 pm - For the past three years, Diane and Mark Gibson have been looking into opening a tattoo removal business. They did the research and couldn't find any businesses devoted ...
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Wrong angles on 360-degree reviewsJan 10, 2016 6:40 am - Reader 1: Recently, our nonprofit's new leader implemented a 360-degree evaluation procedure that allows for anonymous rating of all employees' performance. We superviso...
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Lombard entrepreneurs start custom-made jeans companyJan 10, 2016 5:15 am - Leona Liu of Lombard was a student at Elmhurst College when she participated in a study-abroad program in China in 2009. Learning more about the language while in the la...
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With holidays over, it's time to gear up 2016 plansJan 10, 2016 5:12 am - We're almost two weeks into the New Year and there's been no call from me to you to get in gear with your 2016 plans. Until now. There are things to be done - most of wh...
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A better life in five not-so-easy piecesJan 10, 2016 5:12 am - Reading entrails is popular at this time of year. Most stink already. Others stink in the future. There are pronouncements about China, the Middle East, Europe and Russi...
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Chef Roby to open small-plates restaurant in GenevaJan 10, 2016 5:00 am - It's been five years since I first met chef Alain Roby when he was leasing a storefront on Third Street in Geneva to raise money for Saving Tiny Hearts, a cause he remai...