Business Jumps into Deerfield Spotlight This Week

Whether you looking for a bargain or a new place to shop, this week is tailor made for you in Deerfield.

After Deerfield Square’s annual Sidewalk Sale over the weekend some merchants—Ami Ami, Mephisto Great Lakes Shoes, White House Black Market, Runway, b friends, The Loft, Avenue Fashions and Footloose—will moving what they did not sell inside and maintaining the sale price.

“We’ll sell it (at the sale price) till it’s all gone,” Footloose owner Larry Rosen said of the Sidewalk Sale merchandise.

Official Village business will also be dealing with Deerfield merchants this week when the Appearance Review Commission meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Village Hall. They will be looking at the designs for Robert Vance and Sleepy’s. The Plan Commission meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

If you’re looking for something to do with the children there is a concert and book event. Story time at Barnes & Noble will feature “The Day the Crayons Quit” at 11 a.m. Monday. Wavelength, a preteen rock band—no member has reached his or her 13th birthday—will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Starbuck Plaza.

And, for the serious minded, new Deerfield Public Schools District 109 Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld, a Deerfield resident, will make his first public appearance when the Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. Monday.

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