From the NW CONNECTION Chamber of Commerce
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May 23rd 2019
- Identity Thieves Focus on Small Biz - Logan Square Affordable Housing Project - Juice up Your PC - Traffic Cop Robots? - Planet Fitness Teen Challenge - SBIF Opening - Upcoming Events
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On behalf of NWCC's Board of Directors & Membership...
we hope you enjoy this holiday weekend with friends and family - also that you will take some time to reflect and remember those who serve and have served and why we celebrate Memorial Day.
Regards, Pete Schmugge,
NWCC Executive Director
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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
and
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earn how to recognize it and keep it from happening.
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Armitage/Pulaski SBIF
Opens for Applications June 1st
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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.
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For Info' re eligibility and uses click for
SomerCor,
or
here for one-page program summary.
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Featured Real Estate for Lease - 2653-57 W. Division Street
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Retail/Restaurant space for lease in East Humboldt Park on heavily traveled Division Street. Three separate spaces to be combined or demised depending on the concept. delivered in vanilla box condition. Perfect for any quick serve and/or full service restaurant or retail use.
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Updated 5/21/19
Looking to Buy, Sell or Lease?
Brokers and agents: submit listings
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Affordable Housing Development
Planned for Logan Square
Alderman Carlos Rosa (35th) is submitting plans for a seven-story affordable housing development to the City's Zoning Committee. The project, according to Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation and Chicago-based Landon Bone Baker Architects, replaces a parking lot at 2638 N. Emmett Street with 100 rental units offered at affordable rates to residents earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income. The transit-oriented plan also calls for 4,600 square feet of commercial or nonprofit retail space, 20 on-site parking spots, and a small public plaza.
Read
Curbed Chicago's article for details.
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Time To Tune-up Your PC?
Here an article with five affordable ways to tune up your Windows 10 PCs.
Studies show using outdated or inadequately maintained PCs can be productivity killers, whereas well tuned up system can help employees do their jobs efficiently.
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One Solution For Keeping Traffic Stops From Turning Violent:
A robot That Separates Police Officers from Drivers.
Excerpted: "The main advantage of a robot over a human is that physical danger no longer matters...The robot is purely defensive, so it can’t hurt the motorist. If the motorist damages the robot, it’s only money to replace it."
Excerpted:
"Traffic stops pose real dangers to officers as well. In 2017, the most recent year of available statistics, 5,108 officers were assaulted during traffic stops and pursuits, an average of about 14 officers each day,
according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting
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Click to read
(Peter Holley.Washington Post.Innovations.May 5, 2019)
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Planet Fitness'
Scholarship Sweepstakes
Planet Fitness - home of the Judgement Free Zone® - invited high school teens, ages15 to 18, to work out for free at any of its 1,700 locations throughout the U.S. as part of its nationwide Teen Summer Challenge initiative. The program began May 15th and runs until September 1st.
All teens who sign up are automatically entered into
Planet Fitness’ Scholarship Sweepstakes. By the end of summer, 51 teens in all 50 states and Washington DC will be randomly selected to win a $500 scholarship, and one teen will receive a $5,000 grand prize.
Click
to learn details
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FOOD FARE - CARIBELLA
...Caribbean Cuisine
3311 W. Fullerton Avenue - 773/360-8873
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From the Cafe’s website...
Some beginnings are created out
of necessity, others out of curiosity, but then there are those that are born out of love.” Caribella - created as a place that served fresh, healthy food the owner’s daughter Isabella could enjoy - delivers a delicious and unique brunch menu with a Caribbean twist.
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Open 8 AM to 3 PM, Monday thru Friday; 7 AM to 3 PM Saturday & Sunday
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NW CONNECTION UPCOMING EVENTS
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Click event title
for a flyer with event details
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9:30 AM - First Midwest Bank
- 3956 West North Avenue
ComEd re Energy Grid, Efficiency and Legislation
Guest Speaker: Lizbeth Ramirez, Externals Manager
12 PM - Community Savings Bank
- 4801 W. Belmont
co-sponsors Portage Park & Belmont Central Chambers
Hawthorne Race Course
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between issues of the Connection.
Call 773/558-8743 for free copy of NWCC's Business & Shopping Guide
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2nd quarter
- new members in
red
to NWCC Members for
their Partnership with NWCC
A-Kats Construction Group
- Bionic Auto Parts - Carnicerias Jimenez - Carnicerias Leon - Central Furniture - Coldwell Banker/Larry Lynch - Cook Brothers - Elite Labor - Family Moving - Garcia Auto Service - Ice for Less - Insuring Solutions - K & B Discount - Matthews Roofing - McDonalds Restaurant
(4338 West North Avenue)-
North & Pulaski Fresh Market
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Seligman Animal Hospital - SomerCor - State Farm Insurance/Adam Greene) - State Farm/Mark Hanson - State Farm/Joe Wilson - Taco Burrito House - Time Realty -
TOP Cabinetry
View NWCC's Complete Membership List -
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City of Chicago Free Business Workshops
Department of Business
Affairs & Consumer Protection
Click
to view/download May 2019 Schedule
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