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Cary Chessick, the former founder and CEO of Arlington Heights-based Restaurant.com, has continued his entrepreneurial spirit by co-creating a new online business — Arlington Heights-based PositivityU.com, an employee training program, along with it...
Updated: Nov 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM
More than 100 fine wines will be available for tasting at Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe in Northbrook on the first Sunday in December. The Shoppe’s fourth annual Burgundy tasting will feature newer and somewhat older vintages from some top producers suc...
Updated: Nov 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM
SPRINGFIELD — If history is a guide, suburban mayors looking for relief from their rising police and firefighter pension costs might have to wait in line.
State lawmakers return to Springfield this week to perhaps start brokering a deal on cutting b...
Updated: Nov 26, 2012 at 04:32 PM
A scattering of cabins among islands of tree groves on a sea of prairie grass greeted the Dunton family in 1837. The water table was high, the soil was rich and a Potawatomi Indian trail worn with deep wagon ruts connected to the Military Road down ...
Updated: Nov 25, 2012 at 05:49 PM
Taxes always play a big role during national and state elections. When Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debated whether Bush-era income tax cuts should be continued, there were impassioned arguments on both sides.
But while the president’s policies can ...
Updated: Nov 23, 2012 at 05:56 AM
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타 Edgar Laguna-Reyes, 19, of the 200 block of South Kennedy Drive, was charged Tuesday with unlawful possession of a controlled substance after police found him with 0.6 grams of cocaine, according to a police report. He also wa...
Updated: Nov 21, 2012 at 05:44 PM
Seasonal sippers
Get in the holiday spirit with, um, holiday spirits at P.F. Chang's. Drinks include the holiday sangria for $8, the spiced whiskey punch for $10 and the Sam Adam's Winter Lager for $4.50. This holiday season, spend $100 on gift...
Updated: Nov 23, 2012 at 08:49 AM
As the recession gripped the nation and suburban property owners were forced to find ways to hold the line, local taxing bodies did the opposite.
Property tax levies in the suburbs and Chicago increased by almost $3.5 billion in 2010 compared to jus...
Updated: Nov 22, 2012 at 06:38 AM
Mary Krueger, an outspoken opponent of a proposed apartment building in Wheeling for people with mental disabilities, is running for village trustee.
Krueger’s main issue is flooding in her neighborhood, which she attributes to previous developments...
Updated: Nov 20, 2012 at 06:00 PM
SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are getting set to debate teachers' and state workers' retirements once again, but some caution that a previous cut to benefits actually could cost the state money years from now.
The issue illustrates some of the difficultie...
Updated: Nov 20, 2012 at 10:57 AM