Vernon Hills Business
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The Biz Week That Was: Pickleball saves big boxes, anxiety over auto tariffs, and townhouses at Bell WorksMar 29, 2025 1:50 pm - How pickleball is revitalizing vacant big-box spaces across suburbs The rise of e-commerce has reshaped the retail landscape, leaving big vacancies in dozens of shop...
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How pickleball is revitalizing vacant big-box spaces across suburbsMar 26, 2025 9:13 am - When big-box stores like Toys R Us or Buy Buy Baby close, they leave behind tens of thousands of empty square feet — spaces that can be difficult to fill. One unlikely contender —pickleball — is breathing new life into these cavernous retail spaces.
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‘A much desired use’: Hawthorn Woods approves incentive for potential grocery store developmentMar 25, 2025 8:09 pm - The table has been set to attract retail uses, possibly including a grocery store, to the long-undeveloped corner of Old McHenry and Midlothian roads in Hawthorn Woods.
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Learn how bison shaped the Illinois prairieMar 25, 2025 7:06 am - Author and natural history educator Cindy Crosby will discuss how the tallgrass prairie, Illinois’ original garden, has been shaped by bison during a presentation at 7 p.m. April 1.
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How muskrats shape bird-friendly wetland topic of Lake County Audubon meetingMar 25, 2025 7:06 am - How muskrats shape bird-friendly wetlands is the topic of the Lake County Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. April 7, at Aspen Drive Library, 701 Aspen Drive in Vernon Hills.
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Developer has big plans for former Regal Cinema in Round Lake BeachMar 20, 2025 11:59 am - A Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the empty, fire-scarred Regal Cinema in Round Lake Beach to a family entertainment center.
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Dining out: March Madness specials, a new Moretti’s and moreMar 18, 2025 3:46 pm - We’ve got March Madness specials in the suburbs, as well as a way to help kids with pediatric cancer, a new Moretti’s in Wheeling and an anniversary for award-winning Brother Chimp Brewing in North Aurora.
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‘A sprint and a marathon at the same time’: Public health care workers describe early pandemic challengesMar 15, 2025 12:30 pm - Though trained to deal with a variety of situations, it quickly became apparent the snowballing coronavirus was unlike anything Patti Corn, emergency response coordinator, or Sara Zamor, associate director of prevention, or their colleagues at the Lake County Health Department had faced.
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‘We’re bringing it home’: After 60 years, restored historic library set to reopen as the Waukegan History Museum at the CarnegieMar 08, 2025 1:15 pm - Fitted into a steep bluff with Lake Michigan visible to the east, a prominent historic landmark in downtown Waukegan is set to reopen in its original style and with renewed purpose.
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Free, easy to use platform for all things recycling being rolled out throughout the suburbs and stateMar 07, 2025 11:31 pm - A digital platform designed to make waste and recycling information easy to find, understand and use is being rolled out across the suburbs and statewide.