Finance
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Your retirement plan may be supporting the 'most overpaid' CEOs
Feb 21, 2016 6:31 am - In 2011, investors began getting the right to have their "say on pay," a rule in the Dodd-Frank financial reform act that requires companies to let shareholders cast an ...
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Great Lakes Credit Union donates to 13 organizationsFeb 19, 2016 12:00 am - BANNOCKBURN - Great Lakes Credit Union announced it will donate $39,000 in support of 13 organizations located within the communities of their branches throughout Lake, ...
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Great Lakes Credit Union employees donate $10,000 to two charitiesFeb 17, 2016 12:00 am - BANNOCKBURN - Great Lakes Credit Union employees raised $10,000 to support two charities in 2015. GLCU employees voted to support On Angels' Wings and CU4Kids, and throu...
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Why you're using your chip card at some stores and not at others
Feb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - If you're like many shoppers, you've had a momentary blip of confusion — or maybe several of them — at a checkout counter lately. That's because some stores have outfitt...
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Your tax preparers might not know what they're doing
Feb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary: • A tax preparer in No...
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Falling stocks raise fears among retirement savers
Feb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - As the economy struggled to take off in the years after the financial crisis, Americans had at least one shining source of optimism: a booming stock market that not only...
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Elgin gets a deal on $25 million bond saleFeb 11, 2016 12:00 am - Elgin's largest bond sale in at least 15 years comes at a low interest rate thanks to the city's strong bond ratings, officials said. The 2.4 percent interest rate for t...
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Why it might be better to list your home in the winter than spring
Feb 07, 2016 6:34 am - Ask anyone and they'll tell you: The best time to sell a home is in the spring. I think most real estate professionals would agree. But when exactly is the spring market...
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Why people are leaving New York, L.A. for Detroit
Feb 07, 2016 6:32 am - Erica MacKinnon and Bill Sneed have lived all over the world and spent a couple of years in a rented Los Angeles duplex considering whether to move to Miami or Seattle, ...
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TCF to close 33 suburban Jewel-Ocso branchesFeb 05, 2016 12:00 am - TCF Financial Corp. plans to close 33 TCF Bank branches in Jewel-Osco stores in Chicago and the suburbs by the end of May. The Minnesota-based financial services group s...