Business Columns
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Crucial time for politicians to grow the workforce and support small businessesOct 12, 2021 1:00 am - As the pandemic seemed to be waning early this summer, my colleagues and I gathered for an after-hour event at a Chicago restaurant. We had been there before and were t...
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Feder: Chicago Public Media to acquire Sun-Times under merger plan with WBEZSep 30, 2021 1:00 am - The Chicago Sun-Times would become a subsidiary of Chicago Public Media, nonprofit parent company of WBEZ 91.5-FM, under an "historic partnership" being pursued by the t...
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Feder: Sun-Times, WBEZ officials confirm talks to 'become a combined entity'Sep 29, 2021 1:00 am - Top executives of the Chicago Sun-Times and the parent company of public radio station WBEZ 91.5-FM confirmed a report here Wednesday that talks are underway on a partne...
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Constable: Palatine grads turned smelly gym bags and a class project into a businessSep 23, 2021 5:30 am - A business incubator class Drake Roberts and Anthony Tamras took their senior year at Palatine High School gave them an idea, disrupted their college plans and changed t...
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Feder: Chicago's broadcast museum announces new leadershipSep 22, 2021 1:00 am - As the Museum of Broadcast Communications prepares to bounce back after the pandemic and works to redefine its mission, there's a new boss in the front office. Jim Carlt...
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Feder: Friends rally to support moribund Chicago ReporterSep 22, 2021 1:00 am - It's been a year since The Chicago Reporter abruptly went on hiatus, halting the crucial work of the nonprofit investigative news organization focusing on race, equity a...
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Constable: Elections with ranked choice voting? I'd drink to thatSep 16, 2021 5:30 am - The idea of ranked choice voting has been around so long that my first attempt to explain it in a column used the example of someone walking into his local Blockbuster s...
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Batavia's Tour Edge not wasting time getting its new golf clubs to marketSep 14, 2021 1:00 am - It's obvious the pandemic changed golf. Play increased nationwide last year because the sport was a safe outlet for people in need of exercise and this year, according t...
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Diego Cervantes brought an entrpreneurial spirit with him when he and his family immigrated from MexicoSep 10, 2021 1:00 am - Diego Cervantes describes the classic American story. Born in Mexico, Cervantes and his family immigrated when he was 10 years old. At age 19 he started working in a Bo...
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Policymakers can grow Illinois workforce and tax base by passing occupational licensing reformsSep 08, 2021 1:00 am - Occupational licenses should protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. Unfortunately, some occupational licenses are unnecessary and burdensome. They create ...