Business Stories from March 6, 2018 (Change date)
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Gurnee raises hotel, amusement taxesMar 06, 2018 4:33 am - It will cost a little more to spend a day at Six Flags Great America or stay the night at a Gurnee hotel starting in May. The village board on Monday night voted unanimo...
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Geneva budget plan doesn't count on sales tax hikeMar 06, 2018 4:32 am - Geneva city officials expect that the city could be operated in fiscal year 2018-19 on a budget of $85.28 million. That's if voters don't agree to double the city's sale...
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Vote on controversial Arlington Heights apartments delayedMar 06, 2018 4:00 am - A vote on a controversial plan to build apartments on long-vacant land in downtown Arlington Heights was delayed Monday night at the developer's request. The village boa...
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Sparton Corp., Ultra Electronics awarded $28.4 million for U.S. Navy contractMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - Sparton Corp. and Ultra Electronics Holdings announced the award of subcontracts valued at $28.4 million to their ERAPSCO joint venture, for the manufacture of sonobuoys...
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Apple employees keep walking into glass walls at new HQMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - Apple's new state-of-the-art, $5 billion "spaceship" campus boasts a huge glass-walled building with the latest in energy efficiencies, and a 100,000-square-foot fitness...
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Feder: The Loop ends rock era todayMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - Confirming the sale of WLUP FM 97.9 to Educational Media Foundation, Cumulus Media has announced it will end the classic rock station's current programming today and wil...
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Feder: Christian broadcaster buying The LoopMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - WLUP FM 97.9, the fabled classic rock station that's home to morning host Erich Mancow Muller and four decades of radio history, is being acquired by a nonprofit Christi...
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Boeing CEO: Autonomous air taxis are comingMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - The dream of flying cars has been around longer than Boeing Co. has been making airplanes. Now a vision from the pages of Jules Verne is near enough to occupy the presen...
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FBI searches for Schaumburg bank robberMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - Authorities are searching for a man who robbed a TCF Bank in Schaumburg Tuesday morning. According to the FBI, the man held up the bank at 2501 W. Schaumburg Road about ...
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CVS offers $40 billion of debt to fund $68 billion Aetna deal in 3rd-largest U.S. bond saleMar 06, 2018 12:00 am - CVS Health Corp. kicked off the third-largest corporate bond sale on record to fund its acquisition of Aetna, testing the appetite of a market that's off to its worst an...