Business Columns
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Interior designer brings expertise to new Itasca home decor shopDec 03, 2007 10:00 pm - Picking the color to paint a room is tough. And matching the window treatments and finding texture can be overwhelming for a homeowner. Designer Tara Gruber understands ...
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Gift fund embraces index investingDec 03, 2007 10:00 pm - Some ideas succeed because they are simply wonderful. One of my favorites is charitable gift funds. The first was launched 15 years ago by Fidelity Investments. It was q...
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Red Cottage owners collaborate to create cozy salon and spaDec 03, 2007 10:00 pm - Before launching a new Long Grove salon, the owners worked together in the industry for about 15 years. Kelley Morse of Palatine, Katie Luczak of Arlington Heights and E...
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Amazon's Kindle is hampered by flawsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple's iPod has done for music -- allow ...
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Naperville company's elf site gains worldwide followingDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - You can Elf Yourself. Again. Office Max returns this year with the free Web site, www.ElfYourself.com, where you can scan in your photo, attach it to a dancing elf and s...
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A perfect change of paceNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - After spending nearly 30 years assisting in her family business, Kathy Godlewski felt it was time to stop and smell the coffee. Godlewski and longtime friend Terry Malon...
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Family opens Panini CafeNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - As with many Italian families, almost everything for the Realmutos revolves around the dining room table. "Most things in the Italian culture revolve around food," said ...
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Dreaming of your own business? Read this firstNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - Charles Evans has a wife, three kids and a mortgage; a good job; and -- oh, oh -- a perhaps irresistible entrepreneurial urge "to do something on my own." That's likely ...
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Medicare is more at risk than Social SecurityNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. I am conflicted by what I have been reading about Social Security in your columns and book "The Coming Generational Storm." On the one hand, you recommend we delay ta...
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Can moving to another country offer a better retirement?Nov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Several years ago a Dallas couple approaching retirement disappeared. Well-known on the charitable event circuit, the couple was in Dallas one day and gone the next. Pho...