Any business owner will tell you that profits come and profits go and the outlook can turn on a dime with changing conditions. That appears to be the case for a burger chain that has a location in Illinois that says it suddenly may be declaring bankruptcy based on a new report.
It's not easy to complete a merger of two companies into one. If you doubt this, this is a great example. Thanks to new court activity, the sale of 35 Illinois grocery stores may now be on a permanent hold.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty happy when I find that I had $50 that I didn't know about. The concept of $5 billion dollars is beyond my math comprehension. That's the number that a car maker is reportedly investing in a Illinois plant.
While the names of the businesses were released earlier this year, the Chamber has now revealed how the top 125 companies stacked up against one another.
A gas station and convenience store chain popular on the east coast for its hoagies has announced plans to expand with locations in Indiana and Kentucky.
I'm not a world traveler by any stretch of the imagination, having been no farther west than St. Louis, and no farther north than Ft. Wayne (unless you count a layover in Detroit on the way to Austin, Texas). However, I've been to enough places to see businesses we don't have here, but I think we should. Here are five I can think of off the top of my head.