Carol Stream Business
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The Biz Week That Was: Marijuana law changes, trailblazing paid time off policy among highlightsMay 05, 2024 5:12 am - What marijuana reclassification means for the United States The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous...
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Hale Street Tents are back and so is outdoor summer dining in WheatonMay 02, 2024 9:30 am - In what has quickly become a rite of summer, the Hale Street Tents are back, providing an outdoor dining oasis in downtown Wheaton for a fifth season.
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‘Theatrical limbo’: Wheaton Grand Theater continues to sit idleApr 29, 2024 5:30 am - Smack dab in the middle of downtown Wheaton, surrounded by the bustling businesses of Hale Street, sits an empty old theater with a red-and-black marquee. The Wheaton Gr...
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‘We’re all here to help each other’: Collaboration opens new doors for small businessesApr 28, 2024 5:57 am - While facing challenges old and new — from navigating the ups and downs of the economy to ensuring adequate staffing post COVID-19 pandemic — small businesses are discove...
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The Biz Week That Was: Bears shifting focus, new eateries, Lurie’s suburban outpatient center among highlightsApr 28, 2024 5:16 am - ‘A different philosophy’: Bears’ original goal to own stadium shifts with latest public-private plans New Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren’s stated desir...
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Bonjour, spring: Wheaton French Market returns with pastries, coffee and Joni Mitchell musicApr 25, 2024 6:00 am - Wheaton’s French market is in full swing. Here are the sights and sounds of market season.
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Taco restaurant to open in Wheaton, from the family behind a toda madreApr 23, 2024 1:22 pm - The Bien Trucha restaurant group is developing an entirely new concept in downtown Wheaton. “This is going to be our first fast-casual restaurant,” Julio Cano said. “We've been planning this since before COVID.”
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From publishing house to classrooms: U-46 pursues property for new elementary schoolApr 23, 2024 7:10 am - The more than nine acres that currently make up the David C. Cook Publishing House in Elgin could soon be home to Elgin Area School District U-46’s newest elementary scho...
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‘Best job I’ve had, bar none’: Wheaton record store marks a decade of vinyl revivalApr 22, 2024 11:28 am - As an impressionable boy, Mike Paeth surveyed his parents’ record albums displayed on either side of the all-in-one stereo system. “Literally, everything changed with Rush,” he said. Yep, Paeth had realized free will as an audiophile. His tastes, and those of his customers, continue to evolve at his store, Mile Long Records, in Wheaton.
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‘Like losing a friend’: Shoppers say goodbye to Stratford Square Mall on final dayApr 21, 2024 5:54 pm - The stores were dark and shuttered Sunday at Stratford Square Mall in Bloomingdale, but that didn’t matter to visitors who wandered the corridors and rode the escalators ...