Island Lake Business
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Home Depot to add 2,000 jobs in suburban marketFeb 14, 2011 11:00 pm - More than 60,000 seasonal hirings planned nationwide
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Baxter declares dividend, names officersFeb 14, 2011 10:00 pm - DEERFIELD — Drug and medical device maker Baxter International Inc. said Tuesday its board declared a quarterly dividend of 31 cents per share. The Deerfield company sa...
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Motorola challenges BlackBerry with Three Laws Mobility buyFeb 13, 2011 10:00 pm - Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the mobile-phone maker spun off from Motorola Inc., bought business software maker Three Laws Mobility Inc., aiming to woo corporate cus...
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Asian carp called the biggest threat to Great Lakes in yearsFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Matt Porter grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan. He's been fishing there for 40 years. Now, the McHenry resident runs Jackpot Fishing Charters on Lake Michigan, where...
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Manzullo says Congress must act to save suburban jobsFeb 11, 2011 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON _ If Congress doesn't do something fast to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing industry, Chicago's suburbs and Illinois as a whole could be among the biggest lo...
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Builder scoops up troubled developments to sell homes cheapFeb 11, 2011 12:00 am - An Ohio developer has acquired seven suburban housing developments from bankrupt or other homebuilders, with plans to sell townhouses or single family homes for about $1...
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Buffalo Grove outlines plan to lure more business in 2011Feb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Buffalo Grove has unveiled what the village describes as an ambitious work plan for economic development. But at least one village board member thinks the plan doesn't g...
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New Heat Tracker app turns up the heat at local sitesFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - If you’re eager to know if a restaurant, bar or nightclub is crowded and who’s there, you’re likely using any number of check-in, location-based social networking apps. ...
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Allstate drops as profit falls on catastrophe lossesFeb 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, fell the most since October after fourth-quarter results missed analysts' estimates on losses tie...
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What’s on our minds? PlentyFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Ask local business owners what’s on their minds and you’ll get some interesting feedback — from financing to ethanol, beef shortages to Australia’s typhoon, and — of cou...