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By Julie Wernau | Chicago business owners are less pessimistic about sales and hiring than they were six months ago, according to a survey of small and middle-market business owners conducted by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
One out of five businesses owners said they expected to hire full-time employees during the next six months, up from 17 percent six months ago. About 9 percent said they planned to cut workers.
By Kiah Haslett | The news that the United States Postal
Service may be eliminating Saturday service as a budget-cutting move
caught some business owners by surprise. “The persons it really impacts are my customers,” said Wicker Park jewelry maker Laura Lombardi. “You always want
to be as prompt and efficient as possible, and 50 percent of that is
whoever the mail carrier is.”
Get the full story: Some businesses worried about postal service cuts.
Tribune staff report | Azteca Supply Co., a Chicago company certified as a minority- and woman-owned business, and its owner were indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly steering minority contracts through the company and collecting more than $9.5 million in fraudulent payments from three projects, including two at O’Hare International Airport, the FBI said today.
Read the FBI statement: chicago.fbi.gov
