Des Plaines Business
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Family business falters, then recovers with SBDC helpMar 19, 2012 7:00 am - Family businesses can get especially dicey when the brother who runs the business — say Marchese and Sons Inc., a land surveyor in Roselle — lays off staff. “I laid off ...
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Barrington head hunter turns to music to healMar 19, 2012 6:24 am - Barrington resident Russ Riendeau is senior partner of East Wing Group Inc. and ordinarily helps people find jobs. Now he wants to help heal them. After hurting his bac...
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COD faculty, administration remain at loggerheads on contractMar 16, 2012 7:02 pm - Is the current College of DuPage faculty contract trash or treasure? That’s the central question facing bargaining teams for the college’s administration and faculty ass...
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Rivers Casino first to achieve LEED Gold CertificationMar 15, 2012 12:40 pm - The 8-month-old Rivers Casino in Des Plaines has become the first casino to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the ...
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Elk Grove Village OKs new rules for donation boxesMar 14, 2012 11:00 am - The Elk Grove Village Board Tuesday night approved new regulations for donation boxes, limiting their numbers in town and creating stricter guidelines for appearance, ma...
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Cable, Internet and phone restored to 17,000 WOW! customersMar 13, 2012 8:00 am - Service was restored to about 17,000 WOW! cable customers in the Northwest suburbs who were without service for most of Monday after a fiber-optic line was severed. Offi...
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Northrop Grumman delivers new technologyMar 12, 2012 1:01 pm - Northrop Grumman Corp. of Rolling Meadows announced the recent production and delivery of the 100th Litening G4 targeting pod. Litening G4 is currently in full produ...
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Mariano's Fresh Market boosting towns' sales tax numbersMar 09, 2012 4:30 am - Employees call midafternoon the quiet time at Mariano's Fresh Market in Vernon Hills, yet seven of the 13 main checkouts are open and humming. “I can tell this store has...
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Elgin market celebrates 30 years in businessMar 08, 2012 2:00 pm - State Street Market Shops will turn 30 this weekend. The market houses as many as 35 individual vendors with merchandise set up throughout the long, narrow brick bui...
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ComEd outlines upgrade plans for suburbsMar 07, 2012 10:00 pm - Chicago-based ComEd, which has operations in Oak Brook, is expected to announce Thursday a $2.6 billion program to improve the electric grid in about 65 suburbs. Some wo...