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Business Stories from August 12, 2018 (Change date)

Online shopping is on the rise among kids. Here's how brands are courting them.

Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post
Aug 15, 2018 8:20 am - Nine-year-old Isabella Colello shops for just about everything online. She scrolls through the Amazon app on her phone at least once a day. She gets ideas from YouTube, ...
How to get rid of a timeshare

By LIZ WESTON NerdWallet
Aug 15, 2018 8:20 am - Some timeshare buyers know almost instantly that they've made a mistake. Other owners struggle for years with loan payments and ever-escalating annual fees before they'r...
Drunks on your train? Here's what Metra can do about it

By Marni Pyke
Aug 14, 2018 8:05 am - Whether it's tipsy teens headed to Lollapalooza or surly drunks on St. Patrick's Day, many Metra passengers will find themselves riding in unofficial bar cars from time ...
Analysis: Why there are still so few minority women CEOs

Jena McGregor and Rachel Siegel The Washington Post
Aug 14, 2018 1:45 pm - When asked in an interview with Freakonomics Radio earlier this year why there are so few female CEOs leading big corporations today, outgoing PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi po...
Palatine chamber's Fiesta in the Hills set for Aug. 16

Daily Herald report
Aug 13, 2018 6:59 am - Palatine Park District will host the Fiesta at the Hills networking event organized by the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. The seco...
Airplane theft shows potential dangers from airline workers

By RACHEL LA CORTE and KEITH RIDLER Associated Press
Aug 13, 2018 6:57 am - OLYMPIA, Wash. - The theft of an empty plane by an airline worker who performed dangerous loops before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound illustrated what avia...
Many of the best money management jobs for women aren't on Wall Street

Liz Capo McCormick and John Gittelsohn Bloomberg
Aug 15, 2018 8:20 am - Women who want to manage money seem to be having better luck doing it someplace other than Wall Street. U.S. firms with the highest share of female portfolio managers ar...
Manufacturing apprenticeship program coming to Oakton this fall

Daily Herald report
Aug 13, 2018 6:59 am - Oakton Community College will collaborate with the Industry Consortium for Advanced Technical Training to begin offering industrial maintenance apprenticeship programs f...

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