Woodstock Business
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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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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....
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Caring Transitions sorts through emotional clutterOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Bruce Treadway remembers his grandma, who owned an estate-sale company, dragging him to sales when he was four. Treadway, who was raised by his grandparents, started wo...
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ISE Photography is business spotlightOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - ALGONQUIN - Peter J. Pelke II of ISE Photography is displaying his work at the Harris Bank branch in Algonquin, 225 S. Randall Road. Fine art prints, Web site developmen...
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Movers & shakersAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - GAMA International, a professional organization in the financial service industry, awarded Country Financial agency manager Rick Bristow of Geneva its Gold International...
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Miami firm buys former Motorola plant in HarvardAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - After five years, the vacant Motorola plant, the biggest building in Harvard, finally has a new owner. Miami-based Optima International on Wednesday purchased the 1.5 mi...
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Des Plaines company to pay $30 million for bribery chargeAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - They say money can't buy you love. Maybe not. But it can get you out of a criminal charge, at least if you're a large, publicly traded corporation. Des Plaines-based Law...
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Suburban funeral homes see increase in cremationsAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - After 50 years at Antioch's Strang Funeral Home, Dan Dugenske is seeing more customers comparison shopping the big send-off. Yes, times are tough, and like other industr...
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Economy eating away at people eating outJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - More independent and chain restaurants in the suburbs are likely to close, following the lead set when some Bennigan's eateries locked their doors this week. Higher lab...