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For Small Business Week, Better Business Bureau reveals top scams targeting business ownersMay 03, 2025 1:07 pm - No business is immune to scams — but small businesses, in particular, can be easy targets. Staying informed is your best defense.
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SBA announces new grant funding to support American-made productsMay 03, 2025 1:06 pm - The U.S. Small Business Administration last week announced a new funding opportunity as part of its Made in America Manufacturing Initiative, the agency’s targeted effort...
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The Biz Week That Was: Team building up in the air, and a suburban downtown makes National Historic RegisterMay 03, 2025 1:00 pm - ‘This is totally different’: Itasca hotel offers rappelling experience Launched in partnership with Meet Chicago Northwest and Over The Edge, Altitude Zone allows pa...
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Hanover Township to conduct stroke risk assessment screenings in MayMay 02, 2025 2:53 pm - The Hanover Township Office of Community Health is offering Stroke Risk Assessment screenings for township residents during May in recognition of National Stroke Risk Awareness Month.
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New Korean restaurant coming to downtown Des PlainesMay 02, 2025 11:53 am - A Korean barbecue restaurant should open this spring in downtown Des Plaines’ Metropolitan Square.
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Wall Street loses ground, breaking a 9-day winning streak, and crude oil prices tumble
May 02, 2025 11:30 am - Wall Street extended its gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the stock market's longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since President Donald Trump escalated his trade war in early April.
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Temu ditches Chinese imports model to avoid Trump’s tariffs
May 02, 2025 8:31 am - Temu is abandoning the model centered around cheap Chinese imports that catapulted it to success in the US, aiming to sell only goods from local merchants to American consumers for the foreseeable future.
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‘I know I have hope’: Community rallies behind U-46 teacher in urgent need of a kidneyMay 02, 2025 7:59 am - To her students at Timber Trails Elementary School in Hoffman Estates, Katie Pappas is more than a health teacher.
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Employers added 177,000 jobs as job market shows resilience
May 02, 2025 7:43 am - American employers added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump's trade wars.
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White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget plan
May 02, 2025 7:33 am - President Donald Trump's 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion while increasing expenditures on national security, according to White House statements Friday.