Articles filed under Schwarz, Orrin
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Taking flight: A new business model helped DuPage Airport Authority and NAI Hiffman a success
Jan 9, 2023 1:24 PM - When a technology park didn't work out, DuPage Airport Authority and NAI Hiffman went a new direction, turning DuPage Business Center into a manufacturing and warehousing development.
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Why holiday lighting businesses are a growth industry in the suburbs
Dec 12, 2022 11:56 AM - Holiday lighting companies are finding more and more homeowners, homeowner associations and businesses happy to hire them to put up their winter decorations.
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Local focus: How chambers of commerce are enticing shoppers to suburban downtowns
Nov 13, 2022 8:53 AM - At local chambers of commerce around the suburbs, the quest has begun: To convince people to shop with their feet instead of their thumbs, in quaint storefronts instead of in big boxes.
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Adding life to the economy: Growing biosciences industry diversifies Illinois' business community
Oct 16, 2022 1:00 AM - Biotechnology is growing rapidly. It will grow with or without Illinois, but Illinois is working to get onboard.
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How to evaluate the economy as we march toward the midterm election
Sep 18, 2022 7:00 AM - What local economists say about the strength of the economy.
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Hints of a comeback: Experts seeing signs of progress in suburban office market
Aug 21, 2022 6:00 AM - As economic indicators go, the traffic test is not the most scientific. Neither is the eyeball test Johnson employs when he says he sees more cars in office building parking lots. But the point remains, after a difficult couple of years, there is evidence of progress in the suburban office leasing market.
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Suburban construction companies are getting creative to beat supply-chain woes
Jul 24, 2022 1:00 AM - The supply-chain crisis continues, but local construction companies have found creative ways to get around it.
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Quicker clicks: Why data centers are a growth industry in the suburbs
Jun 26, 2022 1:00 AM - What are data centers, how do they affect our everyday lives, why are so many of them being built in the suburbs and what do they mean for our economy?
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Illinois is growing: It turns out our state is a place to be
May 29, 2022 1:00 AM - It turns out the many stories about an Illinois exodus were all wrong. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau said May 19, our state's population grew by about 257,000 people rather than shrinking by 18,124, as it had originally reported.
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Changing the narrative: Out-of-state businesses are buying Illinois' sales pitch
May 1, 2022 6:00 AM - Intersect Illinois -- a group formed in 2016 by then Gov. Bruce Rauner that counts many of Illinois' biggest and best-known corporations as funders -- is telling Illinois' story to out-of-state businesses in hopes they will move here. Many of them like what they hear.
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