News items related to black businesses

ABC7/WLS-TV CHICAGO EYEWITNESS NEWS SPOTLIGHTS BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES WITH WEEK-LONG SERIES, HOSTED BY ANCHOR TERRELL BROWN: Jayme Nicholas, ABC7, Jul 12, 2020; “Black Owned,” a week-long series of live interviews spotlighting greater Chicago’s Black-owned businesses. The special will air during the newscast on ABC7, July 13 – 17 (11:00 a.m. CDT). ABC7 anchor Terrell Brown will interview and highlight various Black business owners whose businesses include a theater, dental group, syrup company, clothing designer and a winemaker.
HELP US UPLIFT BLACK BUSINESSES @ THE SHOP, SIP AND SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES EVENT JULY 11TH, 10 AM TO 4PM: Nicole Wheatley, Jul 7, 2020; HELP US UPLIFT BLACK BUSINESSES @ THE SHOP, SIP AND SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES EVENT JULY 11TH, 10 AM TO 4PM
CTA Modernization Project Brings Small Business Opportunities: Chicago Transit Authority, Aug 23, 2019; CTA and Walsh-Fluor recently attended a BCOE meeting to teach about opportunities to work on the largest capital improvement project in CTA’s history.
County Executives Address Tax Program at BOP BIZ Center: reprinted from article By Safiyyah Muhammad, Jan 31, 2017; Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore (4th District) and two Cook County
Planning & Development executives visited the BOP BIZ center January 27th to speak
to more than 40 community members about the County’s economic development
programs and the controversy beverage tax.