Oak Brook Business
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Builder scoops up troubled developments to sell homes cheapFeb 11, 2011 12:00 am - An Ohio developer has acquired seven suburban housing developments from bankrupt or other homebuilders, with plans to sell townhouses or single family homes for about $1...
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Rosebud reopens in NapervilleFeb 10, 2011 11:00 pm - Naperville’s new Rosebud Italian Specialties and Pizzeria opened its doors for its first lunch rush in seven months Friday. And staff and customers agreed, it “just felt...
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New Heat Tracker app turns up the heat at local sitesFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - If you’re eager to know if a restaurant, bar or nightclub is crowded and who’s there, you’re likely using any number of check-in, location-based social networking apps. ...
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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'...