Northbrook Business
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Midwest sees home sales boom but Chicago prices hit hardestNov 22, 2009 10:00 pm - KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Home sales in the Midwest surged in October as first-time home buyers sought to beat the initial deadline for a federal tax credit and difficult mark...
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RIM's Curve top smart phone last quarterNov 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Curve 8300 was the top consumer smart phone in the U.S. in the third quarter as price cuts drove up sales, according to research fir...
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Weak dollar helps Cat, McDonald's, hurts KomatsuNov 22, 2009 10:00 pm - For the first time since the equity rally began in March, the biggest U.S. stocks are beating the smallest as the dollar's descent sends investors to companies with the ...
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Home Builders Association files Chapter 11Nov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Rolling Meadows-based Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago Friday filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago. The association has about $2 m...
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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...