Northbrook Business
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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...
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Wheeling company gets tax break to expandFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Wheeling officials have backed giving a company a tax break that will allow them to build an addition onto their building on Hintz Road. Engis Corp., which manufactures ...
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DuPont Fabros readies Elk Grove site for more data center leasesFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Washington, D.C.-based DuPont Fabros Technology plans to invest about $180 million to build out the rest of the former Enesco building in Elk Grove Village and lease it ...
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Boeing's 787 supply chain 'a bridge too far,' CEO saysFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Boeing Co. may have extended the delayed 787 Dreamliner's supply chain too far and delegated too much engineering to other companies, Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerne...
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Playboy increases takeover loan to $185 millionFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Playboy Enterprises Inc., publisher of the namesake men's magazine, increased the size of the term loan it's seeking to fund its takeover by founder Hugh M. Hefner to $1...
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Allstate's net income falls on catastrophe lossesFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Auto and home insurer Allstate said Wednesday its net income fell 43 percent in the fourth quarter as an Arizona hailstorm in October caused its catastrophe l...
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ComEd pushes for $2.6 billion power grid upgradeFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - ComEd is expected to introduce legislation today that touts a massive overhaul of the regulatory process so it can create a modern electric grid that supports a digital ...
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Daily Herald wins awards for print qualityFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald has won two first-place awards for print quality in the nationwide 2011 Inland Print Quality Competition. The contest, sponsored by the Inland Press Ass...
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NovaMed sued over $13.25-a-share buyoutFeb 07, 2011 10:00 pm - NovaMed Inc., the operator of 37 outpatient surgery centers in 19 states, was sued by a shareholder who contends a planned $214 million takeover by Surgery Center Holdin...
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Discover takes over Allstate's banking businessFeb 07, 2011 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, is exiting the banking business and will sell about $1.1 billion in deposits to Discover Financia...