Northbrook Business
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Allstate selling $1 billion in debtMay 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, plans to sell $1 billion of 5- and 10-year senior unsecured debt as soon as today, according to a...
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Allstate CEO: We may raise residential ratesMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home insurer, may raise prices after a first-quarter underwriting loss on residential coverage. "We have work to do," in...
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State official threatens bank in suitmaker's bankruptcyMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, surrounded by dozens of workers at the Hart Schaffner & Marx manufacturing plant in Des Plaines Thursday morning, threatened ...
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Meijer eyeing vacant Dominick's in Prospect HeightsMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Only the second Meijer's store in the Northwest suburbs may soon open in Prospect Heights. Instead of building a new store from the ground up -- like it did in Rolling M...
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Allstate reports third straight quarterly lossMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, posted its third straight loss on declines in the value of investments. The first-quarter net los...
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About 1,500 jobs being cut around IllinoisMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - About a dozen companies around Illinois are laying off about 1,500 workers - including 800 in the suburbs - now through July mostly because of the recession, according t...
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Suitmaker's employees take plea to presidentMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - A large poster bearing the signatures of more than 500 workers at Hart Schaffner & Marx's manufacturing plant in Des Plaines is making its way to President Barack Obama....
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CVS Caremark profit falls on costs, chargesMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday that charges and higher costs outweighed a a boost in the drugstore operator's pharmacy sales, pushing first-quarter profit d...
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Stimulus provides $8.7 million to fund summer jobs for area youthsMay 01, 2009 11:00 pm - The unemployment rate for 16- to-19-year-olds hit 21 percent last year, a level not seen for that age group since 1992. This year, a little extra boost from the federal ...
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Italian family restaurant expands to PalatineApr 27, 2009 11:00 pm - A Wheeling High School graduate switched from owning a bunch of Luke's Beef restaurants to full-service Italian eateries. Tony Colatorti started working as a dishwasher...