Orrin Schwarz
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A boss move: A support group of women doctors is growing throughout the Northwest, West suburbs
Boss Lady Docs is a multipurpose organization -- a mix of social and professional, with suburban female doctors providing each other informal support, mentoring, medical consultations, business help and camaraderie. → Read More
Judge decides not to dismiss murder charges in 2021 Elmhurst stabbing
A DuPage County judge on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss murder charges against a Lombard man who claims he acted in self-defense. → Read More
Suburbanite Charles Evans helped guide the U.S. economy through turbulent times the last 15 years
After 15 years as Chicago Fed president, Charles Evans has earned a chance to relax and reflect. → Read More
Taking flight: A new business model helped DuPage Airport Authority and NAI Hiffman a success
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. → Read More
How to evaluate the economy as we march toward the midterm election
What local economists say about the strength of the economy. → Read More
Quicker clicks: Why data centers are a growth industry in the suburbs
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? → Read More
Adding life to the economy: Growing biosciences industry diversifies Illinois' business community
Biotechnology is growing rapidly. It will grow with or without Illinois, but Illinois is working to get onboard. → Read More
Illinois is growing: It turns out our state is a place to be
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. → Read More
Suburban construction companies are getting creative to beat supply-chain woes
The supply-chain crisis continues, but local construction companies have found creative ways to get around it. → Read More
Why manufacturing, warehouse space is in such high demand in the Chicago area
Talk about the current state of the suburban industrial real estate market quickly trends toward superlatives. To be clear, it's a national trend as well. But the Chicago area is setting the pace. → Read More
The best reason for businesses to locate in the Chicago area
While there are many stories about businesses citing taxes or unions or weather as reasons for going elsewhere, perhaps they're overlooking at least one very persuasive reason to remain in or relocate to the Chicago area: the labor force. → Read More
Growing with the game: Soccer facility enjoying jolt of business from World Cup
Knowing soccer fans like to watch World Cup games with other soccer fans and bask in soccer culture, Toca used the month-long tournament that ended last week to add to its business. → Read More
Why holiday lighting businesses are a growth industry in the suburbs
Holiday lighting companies are finding more and more homeowners, homeowner associations and businesses happy to hire them to put up their winter decorations. → Read More
Former Naperville Central, Wheaton College coach Bishop 'saved Wheaton football'
J.R. Bishop, who coached football at Naperville Central High School and Wheaton College, died Tuesday morning in St. Charles at age 84. → Read More
Hints of a comeback: Experts seeing signs of progress in suburban office market
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. → Read More
Local focus: How chambers of commerce are enticing shoppers to suburban downtowns
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. → Read More
Former U.S. Soccer leader Steinbrecher says growth last few decades has been 'remarkable'
Few people have as much perspective on U.S. soccer's growth as former Glen Ellyn resident Hank Steinbrecher, who already has his World Cup viewing parties organized. → Read More
Self-defense or murder? Lombard man makes his case about 2021 fight
Speaking publicly about his case for the first time, Lombard resident Ronald Dunbar insists he was acting in self-defense during a 2021 fight in Elmhurst that left another man dead. Authorities have accused Dunbar of murder. → Read More
Changing the narrative: Out-of-state businesses are buying Illinois' sales pitch
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. → Read More
Glenbard South victory at Glenbard East is meaningful
By the time Week 8 rolls around in the high school football season, games take on extra meaning. So Glenbard South's 40-20 victory Friday on Senior Night at Glenbard East didn't just earn the Raiders a victory against their district rivals. → Read More