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Yard House restaurant among new entries in ongoing Hawthorn redevelopment in Vernon HillsSep 16, 2024 9:05 am - Yard House restaurant, which features a large selection of draft beer, and two other businesses were announced as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the Hawthorn mall property in Vernon Hills.
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Back from the dead? Haunted house helps revive long vacant nightclub space in West ChicagoSep 15, 2024 4:45 pm - 5 Points Haunted House — a commercial offshoot of the Lehman Manor Halloween attraction run for years by the McCabe family outside their West Chicago home — will open Oct. 4 in the former site of Club 38 and Synergy nightclubs on Roosevelt Road.
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Job rate for women in tech has hardly budged since 2005, EEOC finds
Sep 15, 2024 5:58 am - The share of women in the high-tech industry has barely budged over the past two decades even as the number of lucrative jobs in the field has soared in that time, accord...
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Rent, utilities rose faster than home values for first time in a decade
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High drug prices hurt small businessesSep 15, 2024 5:30 am - Politicians talk a lot about small businesses during elections, and this has certainly been a hot topic as the race for our next president enters the final stretch. As c...
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How to talk politics at work without upsetting anyone
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The Biz Week That Was: Movie house turns 100, business maven moves onSep 15, 2024 5:23 am - ‘Old-school downtown USA’: Antioch Theatre celebrating 100 years and counting Over the past century, the Antioch Theatre has been down but never out as a simple fixt...
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Mortgage rates just fell again. Here’s what you need to know.
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How the Richardson Farm in Spring Grove grew to be the ‘world’s largest’ corn maze
Sep 15, 2024 1:31 am - The corn maze at Richardson Farm in Spring Grove, a 28-acre labyrinth with annual themes, has grown significantly since it started 24 years ago.
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US consumer watchdog finds that school lunch fees are taking a toll on parents
Sep 14, 2024 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Single mother Rebecca Wood was already dealing with high medical bills in 2020 when she noticed she was being charged a $2.49 “program fee” each time she loade...