Algonquin Business
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Dual openings have restaurants owners hoppingSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Two new restaurants are opening just weeks apart along Randall Road in Algonquin. Several of the same owners are involved with opening both establishments. Diced, a sal...
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Movers & shakersAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - GAMA International, a professional organization in the financial service industry, awarded Country Financial agency manager Rick Bristow of Geneva its Gold International...
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New store uses toys as learning toolsAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - When Sarah Flanagan missed her son's ice cream social at school she knew it was time to change her lifestyle. Flanagan was working about 70 hours a week and traveling w...
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Miami firm buys former Motorola plant in HarvardAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - After five years, the vacant Motorola plant, the biggest building in Harvard, finally has a new owner. Miami-based Optima International on Wednesday purchased the 1.5 mi...
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Des Plaines company to pay $30 million for bribery chargeAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - They say money can't buy you love. Maybe not. But it can get you out of a criminal charge, at least if you're a large, publicly traded corporation. Des Plaines-based Law...
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German manufacturing firm to set up shop in Elgin, mayor saysAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Even though the housing market has slowed to trickle, manufacturing firms continue to flow into Elgin. Mayor Ed Schock said Thursday that the city is close to inking a d...
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Suburban funeral homes see increase in cremationsAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - After 50 years at Antioch's Strang Funeral Home, Dan Dugenske is seeing more customers comparison shopping the big send-off. Yes, times are tough, and like other industr...
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Economy eating away at people eating outJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - More independent and chain restaurants in the suburbs are likely to close, following the lead set when some Bennigan's eateries locked their doors this week. Higher lab...
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Restaurant owners respond to dieting food budgetsJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - When it costs $100 to fill up the car on the way home, the idea of ordering pizza for the family may be panned, said Rick Rosati, who runs a growing pizza chain. "Anybod...
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Fermilab job cuts avertedJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory avoided additional layoffs and unpaid furloughs for employees with the signing of a bill by President Bush that granted the fac...