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It's More Than Party Balloons....
Global Helium Shortage...
Will It Affect You, Your Business?

Helium is used in a wide variety of businesses, not just to inflate party balloons or inhaled to make funny-sounding voices. It's used to inflate the Goodyear Blimp, weather balloons and in
a range of industries and areas, including deep sea diving, airbags, cryogenics, rocket fuel, MRI machines and areas of tech that include fiber optics and semiconductors.

Why a shortage?  Helium is a non-renewable resource. It occurs via the nuclear decay of uranium and recovered from mines. Released into the atmosphere it's uneconomical to recapture, and eventually, atmospheric helium will escape our planet altogether.

The global shortage of the gas floated into public attention recently by Party's City announcing the closure of 45 stores nationally, while adding it is not the shortage of helium provoking their decision.
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Armitage/Pulaski SBIF Opens for Applications June 1st
The Small Business Improvement Fund (SBIF)
for the Armitage/Pulaski TIF District opens for applications beginning June 1st. There is
a remaining balance of around $157,000 for that TIF from 2018.

Applications due by 5 PM - July 1, 2019.
For Info' re eligibility and uses click for SomerCor ,
or here for one-page program summary.
Click for Map of TIF District
A Look Into the Future
Read about ideas from transit organizations, developers, and the City for getting around Chicago in the future. Have a suggestion or two of your own?
Click to message Curbed Chicago. 
Jay Koziarz, A.J. LaTrace.5/10/2019
Photo credit Davis BrodyBond LLP
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14 Overused Business Phrases
We Must Retire (And Better Ways to Communicate) Click to read.
from the Internal Revenue Service
Identity Thieves Shift
Focus to Businesses

Tax-related identity theft is prominent on the IRS’s 2019 Dirty Dozen list of Tax Scams. Tax-related identity theft is not limited to stealing personal information of individuals. Because of successful efforts to crack down on such identity theft, thieves have shifted their focus to businesses.

Click tand learn how to recognize it and limit or counter it from happening.

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LET'S EAT... at SABA
Italian Bar & Kitchen
2715 N. Milwaukee Avenue 773/697-9273

" Absolutely amazing!! So many options to choose from. Lots of space, and even have a private room for events or big groups ."

"... dessert was my favorite part of the evening. Panna Cotta, delicious with a perfect mixture of creamy sweetness, and salty Carmel whipped cream. All house made! "

Reservations Taken - Hours: Mon-Thurs  Click for Yelp - Click for website.
Global Localization

If you have a website, you have global exposure. With the high internet penetration rate in nowadays, it isn't much of a surprise to discover foreign traffic to your website. How do you translate the traffic to potential sales?

Whether you want to expand your operations to a foreign market or are considering cross-border as an option to create another stream of income, website localization is the first step in accommodating the language and culture differences
Free Workshop
Website Localization
May 21st - 10 to 11:30 AM

Illinois SBDC/ITC/PTAC
College of DuPage
535 Duane Street, Rm #324
Glen Ellyn IL
Click to register