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“New Evanston Physical Therapy Clinic Realizes Owner’s Dream”

The Evanston couple who started Skillz Physical Therapy last summer said the pandemic has made starting a small business “10 times harder.”

_{Article written by Jonah Meadows, Patch staff | Posted Fri, August 20, 2021, at 12:26 pm CT}

EVANSTON, IL — Last year, Skillz Physical Therapy co-owners Amie Maranan and Nsisong Ekanem were preparing to open up their first clinic just as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic began to sweep through Illinois.

Their plan was to open in February 2020 at a strip mall at the corner of Main Street and Dodge Avenue on the site of a former cleaner’s. The date got pushed back to March by contractors. Then the governor issued a stay-at-home order.

“We were thinking, do we negotiate our way out of the contract? Or what do we do?” Ekanem said. “But Amie was consistent on staying true to our goal and her dream of opening a clinic, so I kind of bit the bullet and decided to just proceed and go forward with it.”

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