Crystal Lake Business
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Gourmet food company cooking in the suburbsNov 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Before launching their gourmet food business, Dan and Debbie Hochstatter and their three children would load up their red wagon with salad dressing samples and hand them...
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These banks aren't looking for a bailoutNov 13, 2008 10:00 pm - First Community Bank in Naperville opened a few months ago in an unlikely spot: a storefront in a strip mall anchored by Starbucks and shadowed by Costco. The newbie is...
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Office Max, TicketsNow, US Steel see cutsNov 13, 2008 10:00 pm - OfficeMax Inc., TicketsNow.com, and U.S. Steel are among the companies that announced hundreds of layoffs Thursday amid a rocky economy and an urgency to cut operational...
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Rolling Meadows ticket reseller to see layoffsNov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Rolling Meadows-based TicketsNow.com, a ticket reseller that was bought earlier this year by Ticketmaster, is expected to lay off 62 workers while its parent company reo...
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Portillo's in Elgin is still possibleNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Many of you die-hard Portillo's Hot Dogs fans have been calling and e-mailing, wondering if owner Dick Portillo still is planning to open a restaurant along Randall Road...
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Circuit City closing stores; 14 could go in IllinoisNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - After months of speculation and struggling sales, Circuit City Inc. Monday said it would close 155 stores, including half of its locations in the Chicago area. Company o...
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Carpentersville's Fat Cat Guitars gets a makeoverOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Since it opened in 2004, Fat Cat Guitars has been a hot spot for guitar lessons. Recently, owners Scott and Kate Bond unveiled a new, state-of-the-art lesson program tha...
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Are podcars a viable way to get around?Oct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some. To Jacob Roberts, podcars -- or PRTs...
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Carpenter adds onto business with custom poker tablesOct 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Edward Guerentz remembers as a "little kid" he'd bring his father tools and hold pieces while his father built things. Guerentz's father, John, was a high-end cabinet m...
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Oilman comes to Chicago to plead for wind powerOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Oilman T. Boone Pickens will be in Chicago today at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom at 10:30 a.m. to push his "Pickens Plan" for reducing America's dependence on foreign oil....