Northbrook Business
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Linens-N-Things starts liquidationOct 17, 2008 11:00 pm - NORTHBROOK - Linens-N-Things closing sales began Friday at the remaining 371 stores, including those in the Chicago suburbs. More than $1 billion of name brand home furn...
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Oilman comes to Chicago to plead for wind powerOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Oilman T. Boone Pickens will be in Chicago today at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom at 10:30 a.m. to push his "Pickens Plan" for reducing America's dependence on foreign oil....
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Northbrook firm loaned about $1 billion to Petters affiliatesOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Lancelot Investment Management LLC, a hedge-fund firm in Northbrook loaned about $1 billion to a company whose former chief executive officer has been arrested amid alle...
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Northbrook's Idex cuts forecastOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Idex Corp., the maker of equipment that measures and dispenses paints and tints, said it reduced its third-quarter earnings and sales forecast after losing a contract an...
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CFO out at General Growth PropertiesOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - General Growth Properties Inc. announced the appointment of Edmund Hoyt as the company's chief financial officer on an interim basis. Hoyt succeeds Bernard Freibaum, who...
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Cash registers, fireworks ring in new Arboretum mall in South BarringtonSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Despite constant talk of economic woes and financial bailouts, shoppers at Friday's grand opening of the Arboretum of South Barrington have faith the new shopping center...
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Motorola sues ex-employees for stealing trade secretsSep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. named four former software engineers employed at its Libertyville and Schaumburg offices in a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleging the theft of ...
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Burlington Coat Factory coming to ElginSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Elgin once was considered a hub for suburban shopping. But then regional malls started opening up, and Elgin's downtown pedestrian shopping experience disappeared. The l...
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InterContinental lands in RosemontSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - A new luxury hotel has checked into Rosemont, the second to open in the last month in the suburb near O'Hare International Airport. InterContinental Chicago O'Hare has o...
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Hoffman Estates Menards set to close by ThanksgivingSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - While developers continue to unveil projects in Hoffman Estates, village officials on Monday announced news that could stymie home improvements. The village's only hardw...