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Article: A little help from her friend: a mentor made all the difference to Tammy Solomon's fledgling business. (Shop Talk).
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- WWD
- Article date:
- October 9, 2002
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As a little girl, Tammy Solomon loved to play store, devising play money, play credit cards and play packaging. So it's no surprise that at age 32, Solomon realized a longstanding dream to open her own business, a women's clothing and gift shop called Chloe Barker in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood.
Solomon, however, had a little help along the way She said her friendship with another Chicago retailer, Kim Hiley, gave her the confidence to leave a career in real estate and branch out on her own.
"I don't think I would have had the courage if I hadn't had a mentor like that," Solomon said of Hiley, who owns Lincoln Park's Tribeca boutique.
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