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Is Business Booming In Evanston?

Examples of owners unafraid to open, expand or relocate in Evanston.

Have you noticed all the new business changes in Evanston lately? Though the KFC closed at the corner of Dodge and Dempster, don’t worry about it for too long.  Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles has taken over the former Napa Auto Parts store at 2424 Dempster Street. Looks like there’s still a lot of work to be done, but I’m certain the place will attract customers from Evanston and far beyond. And, last week, as I sat in the drive-thru ATM at Chase Bank (Davis St. and Orrington Ave.) I noticed new businesses like Gigi Bottega, Adeline’s Room (recently moved from 900 Chicago Ave.) and Austin’s Tacos (see this write-up in the Daily Northwestern and this link to Evanston Land Company). In June of this year, Giordano Dance, founded in 1952…

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Tom Fischl

5:33 am on Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Though taxes remain ridiculously high and parking enforcement is still greatly detrimental to business, landlords are beginning to do more to attract tenants with lowering rents. Landlords are also investing more capital in to their own properties so that small businesses can spend money on the business, not repairing the infrastructure of the building they are moving in to. This change in the …   more ›