Lemont Holds Zoom Town Hall For Small Businesses

LEMONT, IL — Lemont will hold its third Zoom small business town hall at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The village continues to host the town hall weekly to provide information for small business owners in Lemont during the coronavirus pandemic.

This week, the village said it will discuss the payroll protection program options and the latest announcement of additional small business funding from the federal government.

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Kevin Lynch from the Small Business Development Center at Joliet Junior College and Lemont resident and managing director for a commercial real estate investment group, Jason Schiffman, will return again to discuss preparations for funding, along with staff from the village and Heritage Corridor Business Alliance.

You can register online now.

So far, over 40 of Lemont's small local businesses have filled out Patch's simple online survey to let everyone know they are open and their current hours of operations during the coronavirus outbreak.

If you still want to add your business to Patch's list of open and closed businesses, you can do so here.

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