Elgin Business
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State's video gambling revenues outpace casinos for first timeOct 17, 2017 1:00 am - Video gambling is now more profitable than casino gambling for Illinois. The state made $296 million from the machines during the 2017 fiscal year that ended June 30. Me...
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Sears stock sinks as key investor Berkowitz plans to leave boardOct 16, 2017 1:00 am - Bruce Berkowitz, the largest outside shareholder at Sears Holdings Corp., is leaving the retailer's board, a move that sent the stock tumbling on Monday. Berkowitz, the ...
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Why the Cook County soda tax failedOct 14, 2017 1:00 am - Tim Schneider and his three Republican counterparts on the Cook County Board spent much of this year trying to convince Democratic colleagues a penny-per-ounce sweetened...
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Clinical Computer Systems names new manager for Canadian territoryOct 12, 2017 11:00 pm - Elgin, IL - Clinical Computer Systems, Inc. (CCSI) announced that Marcello Cordi of Montreal, Canada, has accepted the role of Canadian Territory Manager for their growi...
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Why only Cook County homeowners are getting a bigger tax exemptionOct 11, 2017 5:30 am - Cook County homeowners are getting a property tax break that their counterparts in other counties aren't. The $7,000 homeowners exemption and $5,000 senior citizen exemp...
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Cook County soda tax dumped; Preckwinkle blames 'tax fatigue'Oct 11, 2017 1:00 am - Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle predicted "painful" cutbacks and forecast a rough budget battle ahead as she suffered her biggest public defeat yet with Wednesday...
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Jim Gaffigan on growing up in the suburbs, eating Hackney's onion loafOct 10, 2017 5:30 am - When comedian Jim Gaffigan thinks back to his childhood years in Elgin and Barrington, his thoughts immediately turn to one thing. It's not his years at Barrington's Ros...
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Hoffman Estates OKs Holiday Inn Express next to Cabela'sOct 10, 2017 5:30 am - Hoffman Estates officials on Monday night unanimously approved construction of a 121-room Holiday Inn Express hotel immediately south of the Cabela's store in the Prairi...
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Early 15-1 vote to repeal soda tax; tax marijuana instead?Oct 10, 2017 1:00 am - Cook County commissioners leading the charge to repeal the much-maligned sweetened beverage tax are grappling with how to make up the money, with one suggesting legalizi...
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Monarch Landing Introduces New Executive DirectorOct 09, 2017 11:00 pm - Mark Trnka remembers when Monarch Landing was first being built 12 years ago. "I've always been aware of the community, and people said that I should throw my resume int...