Business Stories from June 28, 2012 (Change date)
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Two-day program provides training, information for market farmersJun 28, 2012 3:00 pm - Radical Root Farm at Prairie Crossing in Grayslake hosts back-to-back MOSES Organic Field Days Saturday, June 30, and Sunday, July 1. Beginning Market Farming runs from ...
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Weather alerts coming soon to smartphone near youJun 28, 2012 1:50 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Millions of smartphone users will soon begin receiving text messages about severe weather from a sophisticated government system that can send a blanket wa...
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Lawson Products to cut 100 jobsJun 28, 2012 11:22 am - Lawson Products Inc., which received state tax incentives to move its headquarters from Des Plaines to Chicago, said Thursday it is cutting about 100 jobs as part of an ...
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Innovation Group adds MAACO to its networkJun 28, 2012 10:30 am - The Innovation Group PLC, or Rolling Meadows, said it has added MAACO to its Innovation Auto Managed Repair Network for their insurance and fleet business process servic...
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UOP chemist receives Society Of Chemical Industry medalJun 28, 2012 9:32 am - DES PLAINES — UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, said Dr. Dean Rende has been selected to receive the 2012 Society of Chemical Industry Gordon E. Moore Medal for his outstand...
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Suburban patients praise health-care security, but businesses worry about costJun 28, 2012 9:00 am - Des Plaines teacher and breast cancer survivor Marianne Flanagan said Thursday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on President Obama's health care plan will help peo...
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Retailers adopting more technology to get shoppers involvedJun 28, 2012 8:57 am - Getting more customers to shop, or at least be drawn into the store, has retailers leaning more heavily on technology. Seventy-two percent of retailers surveyed said tec...
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US economy grew at modest 1.9 percent rateJun 28, 2012 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew only modestly in the first three months of the year. Consumer spending increased at a slower pace than previously estimated while busi...
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Unemployment rates rose in two-thirds of U.S. citiesJun 28, 2012 7:00 am - WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates rose in more than two-thirds of U.S. cities last month, evidence that the slowdown in hiring last month was felt nationwide. The Labor D...
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News corp. Board said to approve split of company into twoJun 28, 2012 6:47 am - News Corp.’s board approved in principle a plan to split the company’s publishing unit from entertainment, a person with knowledge of the situation said. An announcement...