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What Can Small Businesses Do About the Maskless?
What Can Small Businesses Do About the Maskless? As more states lift requirements that people wear COVID-19 masks indoors when in public, what can small businesses do to protect their employees—and...
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SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund
SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund Eligible restaurants and other dining establishments are entitled to apply to the U.S. Small Business Administration for a $28.6 billion grant program under the...
View ArticleEmergency Rental Assistance for Landlords
The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) and the City of Chicago Department of Housing (DOH) have each announced separate Emergency Rental Assistance Programs. Both programs will be funded...
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Is It Time for Your Business to Drop the Mask?
Drop the Mask in your business? After a year of employee and customer mask requirements being a no-brainer for small businesses, the CDC’s recent change in guidance that those who have become fully...
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Park Ridge Bar Loses Claims for Business Interruption Insurance Coverage
Business interruption insurance & COVID Should business interruption insurance cover losses due to the COVID-19 shutdowns, even if said insurance policy contains a virus exclusion? A bar and...
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What to consider when Starting a Small Business, Part One
Are you thinking about starting a small business? It can be an exciting and challenging endeavor, although it’s more likely to succeed if you plan ahead, take it step by step, and surround yourself...
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Considerations for Starting a Small Business, Part Two
Considerations for Starting a Small Business Recently, we ran a post What to consider when Starting a Small Business, Part One about some of the early steps in starting a small business—deciding...
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Residential Eviction Update
COVID Rules for Residential Evictions RESIDENTIAL EVICTION UPDATE – August 27, 2021 – SCOTUS weighs in. Finally, some clarity to the situation by the source least expected – the U.S. Supreme Court...
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First Cannabis Litigation a Wafting Indication of What’s to Come
Illinois Cannabis Business Market Licenses for a legal cannabis business have been a hot topic lately, and now the the Illinois Supreme Court has made its first ruling related to the byzantine process...
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Starting a Business: What Can Your Law Firm Do for You?
Attorneys Misty Cygan and Geo Bellas can help your get business off to a good start. We’ve run a series of posts recently about the steps involved in launching a business. These have covered issues...
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Electronic Will Signing, Remote Witnessing Made Permanently Available
Wills Can Be Signed Electronically Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, wills needed to be signed in person and witnesses (including notaries) needed to be on hand to see the will creator’s actually sign...
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You Might Need to Rework Your Non-Competes
Illinois Freedom to Work Act Illinois Employers who want to protect their business and trade secrets by using restrictive employment contracts will find new hoops to jump through. The enforcement...
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Tax Liability Stemming From Online Sales
George Bellas advises on E-Commerce There is no doubt that e-commerce sales have grown tremendously over the last 20-plus years. That is in part because online purchases are taxed differently than in...
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January is a good time to Start Your New Business
When is the Best Time to Start a Business? During the pandemic there were over 400,000 new businesses formed, the most since 2007. This outpaced the number of businesses which closed during the...
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Happy New Year? Legislation Impacting Small Businesses Takes Effect
New Laws for Small Businesses in 2022 From salary and benefits, to the hiring process, to non-compete agreements, an array of new state legislation that affects small businesses in one way or another...
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Do You Need a Business License in Illinois?
Do you need a business license? In the past two years about 30,000 new businesses were started in Illinois. Most of those new business had to get a specific license for their particular type of...
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‘Independent Contractor’ Might Be a Trojan Horse
Independent Contractors A recent Illinois Court of Appeals decision in an Illinois Wage Claim Act case puts a magnifying glass on the sticky wicket employers can find themselves when they are unable...
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Understanding the New CDC Guidelines
New CDC Guidelines The CDC has released new mask guidelines easing former recommendations. The CDC is no longer using vaccination status as the benchmark for mask guidelines and are now using low,...
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Data Management Key to Business Success
Data Management Key to Business Success Small businesses should have thorough, regular—and secure—processes for gathering, storing and interpreting data, which in the “Information Age” has become...
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What is a non-fungible token (NFT)?
NFTs as a Business Asset Simply put, NFT’s (or “tokens”) are digital assets. Various examples include movies, drawings, music, and digital artwork. By their very definition, NFT’s are non-fungible,...
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