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Hooters, minus the short shorts, expanding here

Hooters, minus the short shorts, expanding here

Crain's Chicago Business — Happy to see chicken wings fly out the door of its quick-service restaurant in Cicero, Hooters is expanding its pared-down Hoots concept and opening two Chicago outposts this summer, with more coming by the end of next year.
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Mexican celebration Day of the Dead goes mainstream in America

Mexican celebration Day of the Dead goes mainstream in America

USA Today — About this time of the year, Chucho Rodriguez is working his fingers to the bone. His business as a tattoo artist in Lockport, Illinois, picks up in October. Folks want skulls. Lots of skulls. Increasingly, though, they want tats of the decorated sugar skulls adorned with flowers rather than those associated with pirates, haunting and Halloween.
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Taffy grapes: South Side treats that sell out daily are spreading across Chicago

Taffy grapes: South Side treats that sell out daily are spreading across Chicago

Chicago Tribune — Fruit is flying out of many a display case at Chicago-area chicken and fish takeout joints. It's not a health thing. Wrong spots for that. Chicagoans are rushing the restaurants to get their hands on taffy grapes - candy- or frosting-coated seedless green grapes with a nut topping that's made to taste like a taffy apple.
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Gun shop booted from Wizard World Comic Con

Gun shop booted from Wizard World Comic Con

Chicago Tribune — "Maybe 90 percent of people walking around in costumes have (presumably fake) firearms," said Selvaggio, who added that his company has provided props for movies. "All of these movies are filmed with live guns, with firing devices and with replicas."
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Comic cons aren't just for the young: 55 and older suit up to join the act

Comic cons aren't just for the young: 55 and older suit up to join the act

Chicago Tribune — Ken Wiggins is always ready to take a road trip for a good comic book convention. When the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) hits McCormick Place each March, he can be found there with his crew - including longtime buddy Bruce, comics dealer Chuck and Spider, a movie theater worker he befriended over talks about Marvel and DC movies.
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When building your business means hiding that it's black-owned

When building your business means hiding that it's black-owned

Chicago Tribune — In growing his patio-installation company, Duane Draughon erased all clues to the public that he, a black man, owned the business. That meant no photos of him or his family on his website; giving potential customers the impression the business was part of a franchise and that he was a project manager, not the owner; and recruiting a white insurance company representative to conduct job interviews in assembling his white sales team.
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Why the 'Black Inventors' made the tough call to broaden their reach

Why the 'Black Inventors' made the tough call to broaden their reach

Chicago Tribune — An organization founded to assist Chicago-area black inventors is now reaching out to attract all comers, trading the benefits of cultural connection to increase membership, networking power and sponsorship appeal. The former Chicago Black Inventors changed its name in March to the Chicago Inventors Organization.
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Obama-Romney: the battle to sell merchandise

Obama-Romney: the battle to sell merchandise

Chicago Tribune — From flip-flops to Chia heads, merchandise carries election theme Darin Kraetsch wants people to vote with their feet. The CEO of Flip Flop Shops designed shoes with the faces of presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and put them in his 60-store chain. "We always laugh because 'flip-flop' is so synonymous with politics. This year, we decided to pull the trigger and have some fun with it," Kraetsch said. "For people who are frustrated with the government walking all over them, this is a chance to fight back."
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