Elgin Business
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United's yield shows 'desperation,' analyst saysJun 28, 2009 11:00 pm - United Airlines' sale last week of senior secured notes yielding 17 percent indicates a "lack of investor interest and management desperation," according to CreditSights...
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Court to review Buffalo Grove company's suit against NFLJun 28, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the National Football League and its 32 teams can enter an exclusive licensing deal with a maker of team ...
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Sears to let jobless stop payments, still keep fridgeJun 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Sears Holdings Corp., the largest U.S. department-store chain, will let customers who lose their jobs suspend payments and keep appliances bought with store credit cards...
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Workers at Des Plaines suitmaker jubilant for victory over liquidationJun 28, 2009 11:00 pm - The din of cutting machines, presses and other equipment at Hart Schaffner & Marx's Des Plaines factory was silenced for a few hours Monday, replaced by the thunderous c...
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Suburban record store owners remember JacksonJun 26, 2009 11:00 pm - At the height of his popularity in the 1980s, no entertainer was as big as Michael Jackson. People danced to his songs at weddings, graduation parties and bar mitzvahs. ...
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Zurich CEO Foley receives awardJun 25, 2009 11:00 pm - SCHAUMBURG - Zurich, a leading property and casualty insurance provider and Mike Foley, CEO of Zurich North America Commercial, will receive the 2009 Jane Addams Legacy ...
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Northrop Grumman unit gets $276.3M Air Force dealJun 24, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A unit of Northrop Grumman Corp., the nation's second-largest defense contractor, received a $276.3 million Air Force deal for a communications network tha...
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ConAgra Foods 4Q profit drops 13 percentJun 24, 2009 11:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. -- ConAgra Foods Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 13 percent as the prior-year period benefited from the sale of its commodity-t...
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Verizon plans Android-based phones by year's endJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, may sell phones based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system in time for the year-end holiday shopping season...
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For Algonquin's Funky Things, location is everythingJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Becky Barrus loved the old house in downtown Algonquin where she first opened her business Funky Things. But more and more stores kept closing around her, and she starte...