Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson is a reporter for the Daily Herald.

Roosevelt Incubator for Schaumburg Enterprises program participants line up alongside Director Brian Margulis as he speaks prior to a ribbon-cutting event at Roosevelt University's Schaumburg campus on Aug. 4, 2026. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)

RISE business incubator opens as Roosevelt University’s Schaumburg campus marks 30 years

August 5, 2026 at 1:14 p.m.

Roosevelt University and the village of Schaumburg Tuesday launched a new business incubator program to assist suburban entrepreneurs at the now 30-year-old campus just north of Woodfield Mall.

The site of a former Prospect Heights hotel remains undeveloped on July 16, 2025. Prospect Heights has approved a redrawing of the property line between Aviation Plaza at 1098 S. Milwaukee Ave. and the former hotel site to the north to allow construction of Sky Harbour's eight proposed hangars at Chicago Executive Airport. (Eric Peterson/Daily Herald)

Prospect Heights zoning board to review proposed new hangars at Chicago Executive Airport

July 22, 2026 at 1:34 p.m.

New York-based Sky Harbour’s proposal for seven new hangars at Chicago Executive Airport will go before Prospect Heights’ planning and zoning board of appeals.

Residents of Hoffman Estates, Barrington Hills and South Barrington last week protest the proposed rezoning of the 186-acre Plum Farms property at routes 59 and 72. Landowner Karis Critical has since withdrawn its rezoning request for rezoning for a data center from Hoffman Estates consideration. (John Starks/Daily Herald)

Rezoning request withdrawn for Hoffman Estates data center

July 2, 2026 at 1:05 p.m.

The owner of a Hoffman Estates property has withdrawn its request to rezone the site so a data center could have been built there.

Outside Opinion: Export-Import Bank does Illinois no good

June 17, 2018 at 3:24 p.m.

Conservatives in Congress are pressing to end the Export-Import Bank, an agency that provides loans, loan guarantees and credit insurance to help U.S. companies export goods overseas. The bank's authorization...

BUSINESS 101

August 19, 2021 at 4:04 a.m.

I find the demands of the Chicago Bears unsettling. As a business owner I can give some insights to Michael McCaskey on how the rest of the businesses have to...

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