Business Columns
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PlatinumTel announces more deals in pay-as-you-go marketSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - PlatinumTel, a no-strings nationwide wireless provider, has been in business since 2001. But in recent weeks, it's unveiled more plans to compete in the growing pay-as-y...
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New sandwich concept coming to NapervilleSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - The way customers place their orders at a new sandwich chain hitting the area has its origins in the way the founder's mother made school lunches when he was growing up....
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Change: Not always easy, sometimes necessarySep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Back in the '70s, O'Brien Brothers Business Forms, Inc., was perking along, selling and producing the multi-part business forms - bills of lading, for example - that ate...
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Oak Brook data center expands, plans to hire more workersSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Washington, D.C.-based Latisys has three data centers nationwide, including one in Oak Brook that is in the midst of a major expansion for both its physical plant and it...
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How to make your Web site workSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - If you want your business' Web site to do more than sit there, the suggestions that follow should help. So should the names and contact information that come with the su...
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Red Wing Shoes coming to Crystal LakeSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - On and off for the past several years, Jim Heisler has had plans to open a Red Wing Shoe Store. But each time he was ready to go ahead, something happened. First his fat...
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European style center-stage at new Grayslake deliAug 28, 2009 11:00 pm - An Italian family recently opened an authentic European deli in Grayslake. Highlighting old family recipes, Mamma D's Deli & Pizzeria operates at 15 Commerce Drive, Sui...
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IT jobs expected to grow in Chicago, nationwideAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - The IT industry appears to have stabilized and could see some growth, especially in software and services, according to data released Thursday by Vernon Hills-based CDW ...
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Can entrepreneurism be taught?Aug 26, 2009 11:00 pm - The Chicago-based Coleman Foundation, which since 1981 has put $44 million into entrepreneurship programs at colleges and secondary schools across the country, is fundin...
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Suburban companies fight to keep customersAug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - A machine shop that has operated in the suburbs for more than 60 years is suffering, like most companies of its kind, as more and more work is sent to China. Sister comp...