Business Columns
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Longtime candy maker sticks to basicsSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Kay Giglio started making hand-dipped chocolate nearly 60 years ago to give as gifts to family and friends at Christmas time. Now 82, she's still making chocolate -- an...
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Wine shop uses sampling to help buyers selectSep 11, 2009 11:00 pm - If shoppers taste a sample while grocery shopping, it's proven that they're more likely to buy the product. The same may be true at a new Libertyville wine and spirits ...
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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 ...