Elgin Business
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Boeing completes first tests for 747-8 enginesDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing Co. said Wednesday that it has completed the first tests on engines for its 747-8 freighter, moving the delay-plagued jet one step closer to a f...
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Boeing start final testing for 787Dec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Boeing Co. has started "final gauntlet" testing on its first 787 jetliner, an important step before the new plane makes its first flight. In an e-mail Wednesd...
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Mobile workers increasingly common - and not just on snow daysDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - For the last three years, IT Project Manager Jodi Alempijevic has been a mobile worker for Motorola Inc. - mobile in the sense of working on various projects from home, ...
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Hartmarx to sell idle Michigan City plantDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Hartmarx Corp., the Chicago-based men's suit maker that sold the business in August, will undertake the sale of a former distribution facility in Michigan City, Indiana,...
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High Court questions Conrad Black's convictionDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the conviction of Conrad Black, the former Hollinger Inc. chairman who is serving a 6½-year prison sentence for mail fraud and obs...
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Pepsi Bottlers win preliminary class-action suit approvalDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. and PepsiAmericas Inc. won preliminary approval to settle a class- action lawsuit filed by investors challenging a buyout bid by PepsiCo Inc., ...
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No 'mom jeans' to be found at Hot MamaDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - There is a new store along the Randall Road corridor that is hoping to help moms look hot both while they're pregnant and long afterward, too. Hot Mama opened last month...
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Chicago's Joffco Square file Chapter 11Dec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - River West Plaza-Chicago LLC, the owner of the Joffco Square shopping center on West Roosevelt Road in Chicago, filed a Chapter 11 petition on Dec. 7 in its hometown aft...
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General Growth expands bankruptcy planDec 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Shopping-center owner General Growth Properties Inc. said in a court filing yesterday that holders of 30 more mortgages decided to join in the Chapter 11 plan filed Dec....
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Wrigley seeks to refinance $3.5 billion of debtDec 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the world's largest chewing-gum maker, said it's planning to refinance as much as $3.5 billion of its secured term loans to reduce interest costs an...