Business Columns
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Feder: Marissa Bailey joins Erin Kennedy as Channel 2 morning news anchorJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - Marissa Bailey, weekend morning news anchor at WBBM - Channel 2 since 2012, has been promoted to Monday-through-Friday morning co-anchor alongside Erin Kennedy. Bailey r...
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The OS in the Dell: Volo's AtomAMPD strikes key partnershipJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - As Rick Blaine once noted to Capt. Louis Renault, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. AtomAMPD, the Volo-based software company that developed the...
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Feder: TV news vet Wall may be headed to ABC 7 as chief political reporterJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - Veteran Chicago newsman Craig Wall, who signed off in April after 19 years as a general assignment reporter at WFLD Channel 32, soon will be joining ABC Channel 7 as chi...
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Illinois owes billions to suburban non-profits, companies, government agenciesJun 07, 2017 5:00 am - One result of the Illinois legislature's repeated failure to pass a budget is a big backlog of unpaid bills to companies and nonprofits that do business with the state o...
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Craft soda company pouring an iconic brandJun 07, 2017 1:00 am - Bill Daker has childhood memories of the corner grocery store stocking shelves with colorful glass soda bottles filled with sweet drinks in an array of flavors. For the...
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Feder: ProPublica beefs up; Drew Peterson author returns to rootsJun 07, 2017 1:00 am - Robservations on the media beat: ProPublica Illinois, the independent, nonprofit investigative news startup has hired three more reporters; Joe Hosey, the investigative ...
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Feder: Two groups still in running with Tribune to buy Sun-TimesJun 06, 2017 1:00 am - At least two other bidders - including a group headed by former Chicago Alderman Edwin Eisendrath - are still in competition with Chicago Tribune owner tronc to buy the ...
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Chicago man finds his French connectionJun 05, 2017 6:00 am - Laurent Houphoue grew up in Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), Africa, where French influences abound. Laurent remembers seeing cars from the likes of Peugeot and Renault,...
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Buffalo Grove students' invention to appear on 'Today' showJun 04, 2017 11:00 pm - A group of inventors in the entrepreneurship class at Buffalo Grove High School had one goal this year: to land their product — Skunk Aid — on the shelves of a retail st...
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Get your hearing checked at Batavia Sam's ClubJun 04, 2017 11:00 pm - You might not even know it's there. Tucked behind the vision center at the Sam's Club along the Randall Road corridor in Batavia is a hearing center. To make the public ...