Chicago franchisees should check into the city’s program for microlending to assist small businesses. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this week that he was adding $1 Million to the Chicago Microlending Institute for the lending program. To date, the city reports having helped some 110 small businesses in Chicago with over $900,000.
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DDIFO Sponsor Fidelity Bank was named one of the Top Places to Work 2011 in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. They were the only bank in Central Massachusetts and one of only two employers in the region to make this year’s list.
Read More »Tim McLaughlin of the Boston Business Journal writes that about eight months before Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, Danvers Bancorp Inc. reeled in about $175 million in capital from its conversion to a publicly traded bank from a mutual.
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