Oak Brook 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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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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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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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...
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McDonald's sales top expectations; Europe strongerFeb 07, 2011 10:00 pm - OAK BROOK — McDonald's Corp. reported a 5.3 percent rise in January sales at locations open more than a year, giving credit to its McCafe hot chocolate, Chicken McNugget...
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Auto show's economic models sport figures to rev recoveryFeb 07, 2011 12:00 am - An old wives' tale insists that you can predict the veracity of the approaching winter by counting the brown bands of fuzz on woolly bear caterpillars. An old columnist'...
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More layoffs coming in suburbs, but at slower rate than last yearFeb 06, 2011 10:00 pm - About half as many layoffs are scheduled by companies statewide in coming months compared to a year ago, indicating a slowdown in cutbacks and a rebounding economy. Abo...
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Analysis: Sara Lee disarray cost shareholders about $1 bil.Feb 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Sara Lee Corp.'s managers, who failed to boost the stock price buying and selling $12 billion in assets in the past decade, destroyed shareholder value by passing up thr...
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Civil action filed in New Mexico McDonald’s ownerFeb 03, 2011 11:00 pm - Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Relatives of a developmentally disabled Navajo man who was branded with a heated swastika have filed a civil lawsuit against Oak Bro...