Legal At Last
Homebased businesses are finally legal in Chicago. Here's how they did it.
On the face of it, the passage of legislation last May
legalizing homebased businesses in Chicago was just a matter of
timing. After all, America is in a growing love affair with the
concept of working from home. Corporations are restructuring,
throwing thousand of workers into an overcrowded and hostile job
market and prompting many of them to start businesses from home. At
the same time, technology has made creating a professional
homebased business almost as simple as flicking a switch.
Legalizing homebased businesses in America's third largest
city was simply a concept whose time had come. that's all there
was to it . . . right?
Not quite.
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In fact, the battle to win approval of the ordinance to legalize
these businesses turned into a 12-year fight in the Chicago city
council that involved redefining homebased business as an economic
concern rather than a women's issue and creating powerful
alliances between government, homebased business advocates and
corporate America.
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