Elgin Business
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Should home-brewed beer be allowed at festivals?Dec 01, 2012 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Last year, Rich Placko and the St. Charles Silverado Homebrew Club took some of its homemade beer to a local Elgin bar for a fundraiser, serving tastes for...
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Sears Hometown and Outlet 3Q net income risesNov 30, 2012 6:25 am - Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores’ fiscal third-quarter net income rose 29 percent as sales of appliances, mattresses and clothing climbed. The company, which was recentl...
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Wal-Mart, Disney clothes found in Bangladesh fireNov 28, 2012 3:15 pm - DHAKA, Bangladesh — A hooded Mickey Mouse sweatshirt from Disney. Children’s shorts with Wal-Mart’s Faded Glory label. Clothes with hip-hop star Sean Combs’ ENYCE tag. T...
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Insurance Auto Auctions sends cease and desist letter to citizens groupNov 28, 2012 10:30 am - Insurance Auto Auctions, which hopes to open in East Dundee, has fired back at a Barrington Hills-based citizens group that mailed a flier to more than 2,400 East Du...
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Wiseman-Hughes suburban home builder James Hughes dies at 91Nov 27, 2012 12:13 pm - A man who spent a lifetime building thousands of homes throughout the West and South suburbs is being remembered for his devotion to providing quality products. James P....
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OSHA: No violations in man’s swan-related drowningNov 27, 2012 10:11 am - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found no workplace violations in the April death of the 37-year-old Villa Park man who drowned near Des Plaines after a...
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Shoppers clear out suburban stores from the get-goNov 23, 2012 10:29 am - So you expected to saunter into J.C. Penney at 7 a.m. Friday and pick up that $8 crockpot? Think again. Despite 28 years experience working at Penney’s in Yorktown Cente...
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While you snoozed, they shoppedNov 22, 2012 10:00 pm - While you were sleeping, Laura Milman was shopping. The Mount Prospect mom started her Black Friday shopping trip at 6 p.m. Thursday lining up inside her local Walmart t...
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“Black Friday creep” another sign of changing timesNov 22, 2012 5:30 am - For most suburban families, Thanksgiving was never really like the Norman Rockwell painting where an apron-wearing mom served a turkey to her dressed-up family. The holi...
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Smaller Mill Creek expansion gets OK from county committeeNov 20, 2012 12:00 pm - A plan to grow Mill Creek by 268 apartments and 15,000 square feet of commercial space won the approval of a Kane County committee Tuesday morning, but a new stipulation...