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Rich.-Burton ......... 42 R. Christian ..............7 St. Francis............. 28 Marian Central ..... 34 Marengo ................. 0 Burlington Cent.....27
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North Boone ..........14 Harvard ................. 20 Woodstock ........... 47 Johnsburg ..............21 Prairie Ridge............7 Huntley ................. 34
Woodstock N.........12 Hampshire ............ 42 Grayslake Cent......14 Dundee-Crown ..... 30
Jacobs ................... 26 CL South................ 20 Grayslake N. ........... 6 CL Central ............. 35
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2013
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Moms as entrepreneurs Operating a small business provides flexibility, presents challenges
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Budget impasse drags on Shutdown could soon affect local businesses By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Tyler Dunlap (left), 2, his mother, Diane Aubrey Dunlap, and sister, Aubrey, 4, play with blocks Sept. 19 at their McHenry home. Dunlap has worked from home as an independent sales director with Mary Kay for the past 13 years. By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
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cHENRY – Julianne Baron was able to chaperone her children’s field trips, coach sports and be her daughter’s Girl Scout troop leader. That’s one of the reasons she started her insurance agency 21 years ago. “I scared my husband to death,” she said. “When we got back from our honeymoon, I said, ‘I’m going to start my own business.’ I
figured the wedding money would be my backup. If anything went wrong, it would get me by. Well, I didn’t need to touch those gifts.” Since then, the number of women-owned businesses has grown, hitting 7.8 million firms in 2007, according to a Survey of Business Owners by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 28.8 percent of all American companies are women-owned, and of those businesses that are owned by both men and women, 45.8 percent of them have a wom-
an in the primary ownership role, according to the report. Women also are starting their own businesses at a greater rate than men, although on average, their businesses are smaller than men-owned businesses, according to the National Women’s Business Council. About 68 percent of women-owned businesses earn less than $25,000 a year, compared with 48 percent of men-owned businesses,
See MOMS, page A7
By the numbers The 7.8 million companies owned by women make up nearly 30 percent of all U.S. firms, according to the Census Bureau. The survival rate for these firms is 78.2 percent. Women-owned firms bring in an average of $153,000 in receipts, or 27 percent of the average for men-owned businesses. That gap is closing, the National Women’s Business Council says. They employ 7.3 million people nationwide, according to a 2006 report by the Center for Women’s Business Research.
Furloughed federal employee David Chambo worries not only for his household budget, but also for the local businesses he says are not getting paid for services because of the shutdown of his employer. Chambo, of McHenry, has worked since his 2010 retirement from the Army for the Chicago office of the Defense Contract Management Agency, which works with suppliers to make sure supplies for the Department of Defense and related government agencies get delivered on time and to specifications. While corporate giants such as Northrop Grumman and Colt Defense spring to mind when it comes to military contracts, Chambo said the government contracts with many small businesses – some, he said, in McHenry County – for goods and services from washers to parts for naval vessels. With the partial shutdown, Chambo said, small businesses that have government contracts are losing money, which means private employees – not just furloughed federal ones – could start hurting, and soon. “Now you’re going to have the assembly lines shut down,
Day 5 details Saturday’s House agenda called for passing a bill to assure post-shutdown pay for an estimated 800,000 furloughed federal employees off the job since midday Tuesday, then turning off the lights on the House floor until Monday night to allow lawmakers to fly home for two days.
Inside Prospects for a quick end to the partial shutdown are looking remote. PAGE A3
See SHUTDOWN, page A7
‘Chicago Fire’ filming in Union Voice your opinion What’s your favorite Chicago-based TV drama? Vote at NWHerald. com.
Museum is setting for train crash scene BY JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com UNION – Just beyond the gates of the Illinois Railway Museum, crews from the NBC hit drama “Chicago Fire” prepared to tackle one of the series’ biggest accident scenes yet.
A train had derailed and crashed into a warehouse, crumpling up several cars and rolling a tanker. And yes, there was fire. Using about 150 extras recruited from the area, crews began filming Friday. Filming was expected to continue Monday through Thursday at the museum, 7000 Olson Road, Union. Union might be a distance from Chicago, and its farm fields and country roads much
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less urban, but it served as an ideal setting for the scene, those involved said. “This is one of the most amazing resources,” said Bob Hudgins, location manager for the “Chicago Fire” filming crew. “It’s a rare entity.” With its capacity and equipment, the museum and its campus have the ability to serve as a locale for basically any time period, he said.
See FILMING, page A7
H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com
Actor Taylor Kinney looks over production notes before filming a scene Friday at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union. Kinney portrays “Lt. Kelly Severide,” leader of Rescue Squad 3, on the NBC show “Chicago Fire.”
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COMPANY HONING GPS TECHNOLOGY Woodstock-based LandAirSea Systems Inc. is working on new technology it hopes will revolutionize the GPS tracking industry. The GPS tracking device maker is looking to recapture the sales growth that put it at No. 341 on Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in 2008. For more, see page E1.
Jim Dallke – jdallke@shawmedia.com
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