Business Stories from June 20, 2014 (Change date)
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Suburbs part of try to set record for World's Largest Swimming LessonJun 20, 2014 1:01 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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Durbin asks Corinthian Colleges to stop enrollmentJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Illinois' attorney general are calling on a for-profit education company to stop enrolling students and notify current students at its Illinois...
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Survey: Number of millionaires up 2 million to recordJun 20, 2014 1:01 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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Harper College signs five-year contract extension with EnderJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - ksmith@dailyherald.com In an era of turnover in community college leadership, Harper College President Ken Ender gets another five years to steer the Palatine-based scho...
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Starbucks hiking prices on drinks, bagged coffeeJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Starbucks is raising prices on some of its drinks by 5 cents to 20 cents starting next week, and customers can also soon expect to pay $1 more for the package...
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Trump says he's coming to Chicago to see his signJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - Donald Trump is coming to Chicago to see his name in lights. "I want to see it," the billionaire developer told The Associated Press on Friday of his visit, planned in a...
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Starbucks degree program not as simple as it seemsJun 20, 2014 1:01 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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Dow, S&P 500 at record levelsJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - Stocks inched past more milestones Friday, delivering the third consecutive record-high close for the Standard & Poor's 500 index and a new high for the Dow Jones indust...
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Obama moves to ensure sick leave for gay couplesJun 20, 2014 1:01 am - 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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Icahn urges Family Dollar CEO Levine to seek sale 'immediately'Jun 20, 2014 1:00 am - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Family Dollar Stores Inc. should put itself up for sale “immediately” and add three directors that he's proposing to speed the proce...