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Women own businesses reshape construction industry in Chicago area
Julie Martinez started Will Rent at 25 to lease small equipment to builders in Chicago. NAWBO notes a 153 percent rise in minority women business owners since 1987, with many small firms run by Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian women. Phyllis Hill Slater, NAWBO president-elect, says owning a business brings economic freedom and expands into fields once sparse for women.
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