Carpentersville Business
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1,400 layoffs to hit the stateDec 05, 2011 11:00 pm - More than 1,400 jobs could be eliminated by early next year as 11 Illinois companies, including some in the suburbs, plan closures and layoffs, according to information ...
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House to return Monday for tax-break voteDec 05, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House lawmakers are scheduled to return to the Capitol Monday in yet another effort to approve tax breaks for Sears Holdings Corp., CME Group and ...
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Sears deal getting split?Dec 04, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — The big tax-breaks plan that includes an effort to keep Sears Holdings Corp. in Hoffman Estates might be split up in an effort to make it more politically ...
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Herb's Bakery in Elgin not closing, owner saysDec 02, 2011 10:00 pm - Herb Schwartz has been rumored to be telling people in Elgin that the bakery he opened in 1954 will soon be closed. Not only is Herb's Bakery not closing or being sold, ...
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St. Charles Chamber gets new president from HampshireDec 01, 2011 12:00 am - The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce has hired a new chief executive officer and president. Stacey Ekstrom will start the job Dec. 12. Members can meet her at the chamber...
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Hoffman Estates mayor: Sears relocation not an empty threatNov 30, 2011 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Hoffman Estates Mayor William McLeod doesn't think Sears Holdings Corp.'s threat to move out of town if it doesn't get more tax breaks is a bluff. He shoul...
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Manufacturing remains strong industry, career choiceNov 28, 2011 11:00 pm - To paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of the death of U.S. manufacturing are greatly exaggerated. While the United States certainly faces much greater global competition ...
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Funky Munky staying put, owner saysNov 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Call it a funky coincidence. Jodi Galle, owner of Funky Munky in Lake in the Hills, says her store suffered a case of mistaken identity after Funky Things, a women’s clo...
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Tips to help you take on Black Friday in the burbsNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Black Friday is so 2008. The post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza is now called Black Midnight, because so many national chains open their doors (and offer their bes...
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Aurora approves 2 new TIF districts near outlet mallNov 22, 2011 10:00 pm - Fourteen years before Chicago Premium Outlets was built in Aurora in 2003, the city formed a tax increment financing district to help spur development in the then-vacant...