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Help for Haiti: Learn What You Can Do  
OCTOBER 20-22 • Centrallia 2010 Global Business Forum (Winnipeg, Manitoba) 
SEPTEMBER 24 • ITCC IMPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: NAFTA Internal Reviews and Verifications 
SEPTEMBER 14 • Business Briefing: Romanian Manufacturing Technology Mission (IMTS 2010) 
AUGUST 12-13 • 28th Annual Chicago MED (Minority Enterprise Development) Week 
JUNE 29 • 47th Annual Small Business Week Awards, Lender Matchmaking and Business Expo 
JUNE 25 • EU FISCAL REFORM: An Update From Europe 
JUNE 15 • Breakfast with the Canadian Ambassador to the United States 
JUNE 15 • EU DEBT CRISIS: A Real-Time Analysis  
JUNE 11-JULY 11 • Chicago World Cup Celebration 
JUNE 9 • Strategic Planning for Global Markets Workshop (free event) 
MAY 26 • Global Financial and Monetary Order in the Aftermath of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis - CLE Lunch & Learn Program (JMLS) 
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Attention Chicago Area Companies: 4 Shanghai Interns Available October 11 - December 3, 2010
by ITCC news release 
WorldChicago, in collaboration with DePaul University, is pleased to host four (4) English-speaking mid-level managers from Shanghai who will be placed in professional level internships for two months in Chicago.

Chicago Dates: October 11 - December 3, 2010

WorldChicago seeks internship hosts during October and November, 2010. Our intern candidates are in the following industries:

• Gas Pipeline Engineering - seeking a Human Resources Management internship
• Investment Banker...full article 
 
Industrial vacancy improves for first time since 2007
by Eddie Baeb, Crain's Chicago Business  
For the first time in more than two years, there’s something positive to talk about in the industrial real estate market.

The vacancy rate for warehouses and factories in the Chicago area fell to 11.9% in the second quarter from 12.3% in the first quarter, snapping a streak of 10 straight quarterly increases.

The vacancy is still higher than it was a year ago, when the rate was 11.7%, according to a new report from the Rosemont office of Colliers International.

Meanwhile, a key gauge of...full article 
 
Small business sidelined in slow recovery from recession
by Don Lee, Los Angeles Times  
In every recession over the last three decades, it has been America's small businesses — those Lilliputian companies with fewer than 100 employees — that stepped forward, began hiring and pulled the country out of the mire.

Not this time.

Small firms are on the sidelines, and it's not just because of tight credit from the financial meltdown, as the Obama administration and others have been saying.

Rather, a host of factors — some well-recognized and others seemingly unnoticed in the nat...full article 
 
Groupon phenomenon bad for business?
by Deborah L. Cohen, Reuters  
Shopkeeper Greg O'Neill has personally used popular Web discounting service Groupon for deals on local Chicago eateries, but chooses not to for his own business.

Despite the huge success Groupon has enjoyed since launching three years ago - the company has sold more than 6 million coupon-type deals for various businesses, according to their website - O'Neill, who runs three upscale Chicago wine-and-cheese shops, decided it wasn't the right avenue to boost sales.

"I'm not a price player," s...full article 
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