I can't seem to get the whole clickable link to work (cut & paste the below to view the whole article) but in today's Chicago Tribune online it notes the below postive info about Ed and his Crossroads dealership in an article about Tom Sparks of DeKalb losing their franchise..
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...om-sparks-0515,0,387605.story
"...Friday was tense for Ed Schoenthaler, the owner of Crossroads Chevrolet in West Chicago. Then his store's switchboard operator called him on his cell phone while he was driving to say the dealership is getting its franchise renewed. This was a huge relief to Schoenthaler, who started his auto sales career in 1965 in Oak Park and took over Crossroads 26 years ago.
"Cars are my life and I have never regretted a day in the business, and that's why this was so scary to me," he said.
The crisis in the auto industry had taken a toll both on his employees and customers, who were unsure about buying a Chevy if the company would soon be bankrupt, Schoenthaler said. Now, with his dealership's future assured, he's looking ahead to improvement plans.
"Our building could use a paint job, which we had been putting off because we didn't know if we were going to be there or not," he said. "We're going to clean up our facilities even more and modernize them a little bit. Now that we know we're going to be there and it's worth the investment, we'll do even more..."
~ Pete