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updated business licences description and trend
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derekeder committed Dec 4, 2014
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<p>Total businesses depend upon the balance between new businesses starting and old businesses failing. In general, higher rates of business creation increase total economic activity.</p>
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<h4>The Data</h4>
<p>To measure new businesses, we use counts of new business licenses filed with the City of Chicago.</p>
<p>To measure new businesses, we look at all the licenses issued for a particular business location (Acccount Number and Site Number). We look for the oldest license. If the oldest license is a new license and not a renewal, then we figure that the date of the oldest license is when the business location was first licensed.</p>
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The City of Chicago requires most companies to get business licenses
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<a href='https://data.cityofchicago.org/Community-Economic-Development/Business-Licenses/r5kz-chrr'>City of Chicago</a>
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Trend:
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Been better
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Upswing
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