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Handing Down The Printed Word

As you may know, I continue to be vexed at the transition to e-books and paper.  On the one hand it is such a wonderful technology and makes exchanging written words so accessible, but on the other I wonder what it will be like to future generations to not have…

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World Class City Survival

I am not in a position to write and post something insightful today, but I wanted to memorialize the experience of being the NATO Summit host city.

To be sure, ours is not a restaurant business and my employees didn’t have to wrestle with road closures, but as a business owner…

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Loop Welcoming Home Grown Business

I understand the City’s desire to attract high profile out of town tenants to take up residence in our downtown area – good economics, great transportation, improved visibility for the tenant, etc.  But as we all know many of these attraction campaigns can result in tax breaks and other concessions.

I…

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Doing Micro Business in Chicago

What a couple of weeks we’ve had with the numbers world!  Congress spent weeks of fruitless posturing before arriving at an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, volatility in the markets both up and down over the last month, European stability fears prompting a huge stock market decline last week…

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New Development Concepts Spur Growth in the Near North

The rumbling about developing more community base commerce in the Cabrini Green area of Chicago is growing into dialogue.  In an article in the Chicago Sun Times some of the issues regarding this project are clearly outlined. 

For a developer to link an owner with the concept of developing on government…

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What does an App called Color Do?

In the past 48 hours I have read three articles about a Social Media/Photo sharing application called Color. It would be silly for me to try to describe it, but I will link you up with the articles: The Chicago Tribune article was published in the Business section on March…

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