Articles in the Business & Economy Category

After a year of massive earth moving and construction, Walmart finally opened its doors to customers today at its new Randall & Bowes Road location. The new store is a hypermarket, combining a complete supermarket with the traditional discount store offerings.

Mad Maggies and Red Bar Winery & Bistro both closed recently, but it’s not just Elgin’s downtown restaurants that are having trouble. Nick Sarillo, owner of Nick’s Pizza on Randall Road sent a letter out to customers this week asking for their help in bringing in enough sales to forestall a possible bankruptcy.

Arlington Heights-based Daily Herald, which publishes local newspapers throughout the Chicago suburbs, including Elgin, will begin charging for online access to its content starting next week, the paper announced today.

Wednesday night, Elgin’s city council voted to provide another $250,000 of your money to the Artspace project. Hearing our seven fearless leaders describe this “investment’ that will soon be paying off got me thinking…

The Illinois House of Representatives approved a Chicago casino today.

Sears Holdings will hire 40-66 people at a new photographic facility in Elgin.

Think there’s nothing you can do about the 67% tax income tax increase passed last week by Illinois legislators?

Think again.