Island Lake Business
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Des Plaines company to pay $30 million for bribery chargeAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - They say money can't buy you love. Maybe not. But it can get you out of a criminal charge, at least if you're a large, publicly traded corporation. Des Plaines-based Law...
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Suburban funeral homes see increase in cremationsAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - After 50 years at Antioch's Strang Funeral Home, Dan Dugenske is seeing more customers comparison shopping the big send-off. Yes, times are tough, and like other industr...
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Abbott faces more litigation over AIDS drugAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relations ...
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Hayes Technology inks newspaper dealJul 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Vernon Hills-based Hayes Technology Group, the developer of Gold Client, the refresh and replication data-management software solution for use within SAP solution-based ...
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Economy eating away at people eating outJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - More independent and chain restaurants in the suburbs are likely to close, following the lead set when some Bennigan's eateries locked their doors this week. Higher lab...
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FDA ties Baxter to Heparin deathsJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - The Food and Drug Administration's final analysis of 93 deaths in patients given heparin conclusively links some with a contaminant in the blood-thinning drug. That's ac...
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Grainger announces India investmentJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Lake Forest-based Grainger, a broad line distributor of facilities maintenance products firm, announced the company has bought a 49.9 percent stake in Asia Pacific Brand...
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Restaurant owners respond to dieting food budgetsJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - When it costs $100 to fill up the car on the way home, the idea of ordering pizza for the family may be panned, said Rick Rosati, who runs a growing pizza chain. "Anybod...
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Kraft Foods 2nd-quarter profit rises 4 percentJul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Kraft Foods Inc., the nation's largest food and beverage maker, reported a second-quarter profit rise of nearly 4 percent on Monday, saying higher prices he...
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Frykman Technologies still takes care of low-tech typewritersJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - For people of a certain age, the rat-a-tat of a typewriter in action is an unmistakable sound. But as personal computers superseded typewriters as indispensable pieces o...