Business Stories from June 20, 2014 (Change date)
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Veterans groups turn to video gambling to surviveJun 21, 2014 9:34 am - Faced with declining membership and lack of new blood, some veterans' organizations are pegging their survival on video gambling. A few, particularly those that installe...
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Naperville closing two downtown streets for pedestrian safetyJun 21, 2014 9:34 am - Naperville police this summer will test an idea to improve pedestrian safety when bars are letting out, and it involves closing two downtown streets. The idea is that p...
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Congress probes how IRS emails could go missingJun 21, 2014 9:34 am - WASHINGTON - Eight federal employees connected to the Tea Party investigation experienced hard drive crashes, resulting in an unknown number of lost emails, Internal Rev...
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Consumer watchdog warns of tax phone scam in IllinoisJun 20, 2014 10:55 am - Associated Press A consumer watchdog group has warned Chicago and northern Illinois residents of a phone scam where callers pose as IRS officials and trick people into s...
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Survey: Number of millionaires up 2 million to recordJun 20, 2014 7:51 am - Nearly 2 million people around the world became millionaires last year, a year-over-year increase of 15 percent, as surging stock and home markets lifted the fortunes of...
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Soccer interactions dwarf other events on FacebookJun 21, 2014 11:49 am - NEW YORK - Through one week of the World Cup, Facebook has already seen more people having more interactions about the tournament on the social media site than it had fo...
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Obama moves to ensure sick leave for gay couplesJun 20, 2014 4:51 pm - WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will work to ensure that gay and lesbian Americans are eligible to take leave from their jobs to care for a same-sex spouse, regard...
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Starbucks degree program not as simple as it seemsJun 20, 2014 10:20 am - The scholarship portion of a new education program Starbucks is offering to help workers pay for an online degree consists of a discount from Arizona State University, n...
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Suburbs part of try to set record for World's Largest Swimming LessonJun 21, 2014 9:29 am - Children and adults plunged into pools across the suburbs Friday as part of an effort to break a world record for the largest lesson. It was the fifth consecutive year f...
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Judge off Jordan case, denies calling legend 'hog'Jun 21, 2014 7:28 pm - A federal judge in Chicago has removed himself from a civil case involving Michael Jordan, but denies his use of the term "hog" was aimed directly at the former Bulls st...
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