Will County Business
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Tips to help you take on Black Friday in the burbsNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Black Friday is so 2008. The post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza is now called Black Midnight, because so many national chains open their doors (and offer their bes...
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Tight economy or not, Halloween house decor creeps onOct 27, 2011 11:00 pm - What's the price of throwing a good scare into your neighbors? For Jon Gear of St. Charles, it's $50 to $75. Gear won the “high scare — low budget” category of the St. C...
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Number of homes sold here increases in AugustSep 21, 2011 12:00 am - Bill and Joan Reinert of Arlington Heights decided in August to sell their home so they could downsize. The couple didn't know what to expect, considering the brutal rea...
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1st NASCAR car wash opensSep 15, 2011 12:00 am - Racing fans, rev your engines toward the first NASCAR-branded carwash. Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne and NASCAR Nationwide Series points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wer...
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Will tollway expansion create 120,000 jobs?Aug 26, 2011 12:00 am - A $12 billion capital plan that would create thousands of jobs seems like a panacea for the metropolitan region’s woeful unemployment rate of 10.5 percent. But predictin...
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Area existing home sales leap 19.2% over 2010Aug 18, 2011 12:00 am - Existing home sales in the area spiked 19.2 percent in July compared to a year ago, the Illinois Association of Realtors reported Thursday. In the nine-county Chicagolan...
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Far fewer foreclosures in suburbs, but it's false hopeAug 11, 2011 10:30 am - DuPage County as well as the state overall saw record decreases in foreclosures during July compared to a year ago, according to a report expected to be released today b...
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Durbin hears success stories from Elgin career centerAug 09, 2011 12:00 am - If the American economy is to recover, Sen. Dick Durbin says, the last place the federal government should cut funding is from career development sites like the Illinois...
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Fermilab employees take buyouts; layoffs possibleJul 27, 2011 12:00 am - Forty-four workers are taking incentives to quit Fermilab, as the Batavia-based center tries to trim costs as its main particle accelerator shuts down. The laboratory ha...
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Windy storm beat, didn't kill, corn cropJul 13, 2011 12:00 am - Monday's storm, with its 60-plus mph winds, didn't just fell trees and power lines. It also did a number on some cornfields, flattening stalks. But local sweet corn grow...