Two Chicago Women Work To Uplift South Side Businesses

New data on the latest round of PPP loans for small businesses show that big businesses benefited most from federal aid.

By Bianca Martin
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A woman looks at a retail store as a boarded-up wall painted with a Black Lives Matter message in Andersonville, Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo
AMERICA PROTESTS CHICAGO
A woman looks at a retail store as a boarded-up wall painted with a Black Lives Matter message in Andersonville, Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo

Two Chicago Women Work To Uplift South Side Businesses

New data on the latest round of PPP loans for small businesses show that big businesses benefited most from federal aid.

By Bianca Martin
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Reset checks in with two Chicago women who are working to help bolster small businesses on Chicago’s South Side following recent protests and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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