4+ week, 2+ day ago   (945+ words) Cullen Thompson started Georgia’s Food on the Go two years ago in northeast Lake County, cooking and selling Creole-Cajun-Asian fusion dishes from a food truck based on recipes he learned as a boy in his mother’s kitchen. Her name is…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (837+ words) The SoHo Shops at Town Center, a retail incubator project designed to allow small business owners to test the experience of running a brick-and-mortar location, held a grand opening Friday with its first set of 10 participating businesses. “Honestly, it’s a…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (716+ words) The Jafar sisters were so excited about selling their creations they could barely sleep. The next day, they’d be among the young businesspeople featured at the recent Youth Entrepreneur Fair at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills. So they…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (545+ words) Robert J.R. Follett spent more than 40 years working for his family’s eponymous Chicago-based bookselling company, rising to become chairman and overseeing the 1982 sale of its publishing arm and the continued successes of its remaining college bookstore operations and used textbook and…...