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Friday, November 16, 2012

Local Businesses Team Up To Promote ‘Small Business Saturday’

Free trolley will take shoppers to participating businesses during Santa On the Green to give locally owned shops a strong start to the holiday retail season on Nov. 24.

Hovering somewhere between ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’ is ‘Small Business Saturday,’ the first Saturday after Thanksgiving set aside to encourage support of small businesses across America. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Local business owners are teaming up to host the first-ever “Small Business Saturday in Oak Lawn” designed to promote and energize Oak Lawn’s independently owned shops and restaurants. The Oak Lawn Chamber and local businesses have chartered a trolley to circulate between Cicero Avenue and Ridgeland Avenue, offering shoppers free rides to participating businesses. The trolley will be picking up and dropping off shoppers during Santa On the Green. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov…

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