Whiteside County Economic Development celebrated National Small Business Week by “joining in support of small businesses by promoting a new, online program the county economic development office uses to help small businesses.” The Clinton Herald article New Website Supports Small Whiteside County Businesses explains that “SizeUpWhitesideCountyIL delivers market research and business intelligence so Whiteside County businesses can make data-driven decisions using analysis that has historically only been available to large corporations.” If further describes that, “Aspiring entrepreneurs can use the data to test, verify, or reject assumptions that will enable them to develop a better business plan for opening their company and to reduce the risk of failure by better preparing them with quality information.”