Business Resources

Connect with resources and information to help navigate your business. While the library has vetted these resources, updates and changes can occur rapidly. Please check with the organizations for the most recent information.

Loans and Funding

• Disaster Assistance Loans
• Funding for Small Businesses –  Updated 4.26.20
• Illinois Economic Assistance
• Paycheck Protection Program 
• Paycheck Protection Program – Updated 4.22.20
• Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance
• Small Business Guidance and Loan Resources
• Small Business Survival Guide

Business Resources

• Remote Notary Services Learn more
  To eliminate barriers that hinder virtual or remote real estate closings and all related financial transactions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Pritzker is allowing remote notarizations at various locations for the duration of stay-at-home orders. 

  The closest facility to the library offering remote notary services is The UPS Store,113 McHenry Rd, Buffalo Grove. Call  847-459-7060 and ask for Hector. 

• Business Impact Survey
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Common Workplace Questions
• Free Wi-Fi
• Guidance for Employers: US Chamber
• Illinois Business FAQs
• Illinois Department of Commerce
• OSHA COVID
• OSHA Guidance
• Unemployment Questions
• USA.gov

Employee Resources

• Application for Benefits Eligibility
• Blanket Waivers
• Common Workplace Questions
• Federal Employee Coverage
• Illinois Business FAQs
• Illinois Economic Assistance
• Managing Financial Impacts
• Medicare
• OSHA COVID
• Paid Sick Leave
• Unemployment Assistance
• Unemployment Questions
• USA.gov

Government Resources

• Arlington Heights
• Buffalo Grove
• Illinois Business FAQs
• Illinois Coronavirus Response
• Illinois Department of Public Health
• Illinois Economic Assistance
• Prospect Heights – General
• Prospect Heights – March 10
• US Chamber: Guidance for Employers
• Wheeling – General