Northbrook Business
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Sun-Times' old stock ticker symbol debuts with new ownerNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Here's hoping this SVN has better luck. Less than a month after the Sun-Times Media Group was sold out of bankruptcy to a group of investors, a small part of the struggl...
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Less expensive toys emerging at top of children's wish listsNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - PlayStation and Wii entertainment systems will still be placed under thousands of Christmas trees this season, but it's the less expensive toys that are coming out on to...
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Moto buys RadioFrame's IDEN businessNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, acquired RadioFrame Networks Inc.'s digital-phone technology business to gain its lower-cost, power-efficient capabil...
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Ex-CEO: Playboy needs to expand its brandNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Playboy Enterprises Inc. needs to make strategic decisions to expand the men's magazine publisher in the coming decade, according to former Chief Executive Officer Chris...
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Unemployment rate in Illinois climbs to 11 percentNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Alvin "Chip" Washington of Aurora was let go in October 2007, but he thought buying some single family homes, rehabbing and renting them would help bring in enough incom...
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General Growth, lenders agree on mall debt reworkNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Mall operator General Growth Properties Inc., which filed the largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy case in history earlier this year, said Thursday its len...
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Sears narrows 3Q loss on cost-cutting effortsNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Shoppers increased their spending at Kmart stores for the first time in at least seven years this fall, picking up cheap toys, shoes and items for their homes. The boost...
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UAL, airline execs took $350 mil as pensions endedNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - UAL Corp., US Airways Group Inc. and eight other companies paid executives $350 million in the five years before the U.S. was forced to take over their under-funded empl...
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Trib-owned paper sued for plagiarismNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - HARTFORD, Conn. -- A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper sued the state's largest newspaper Thursday, saying it repeatedly plagiarized stories after cutting its ow...
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Shoppers to spend less on gift cards this holiday seasonNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - While gift cards are again the most-requested present this holiday, be prepared to receive discounted ties or slippers instead. And if you do receive a gift card, don't ...