Oak Brook Business
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Des Plaines company to pay $30 million for bribery chargeAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - They say money can't buy you love. Maybe not. But it can get you out of a criminal charge, at least if you're a large, publicly traded corporation. Des Plaines-based Law...
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McDonald's July sales riseAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Despite a tough U.S. economy, Oak Brook-based McDonald's Corp. posted an 8 percent gain in July same-store sales on Friday as hungry consumers worldwide lined...
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Suburban funeral homes see increase in cremationsAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - After 50 years at Antioch's Strang Funeral Home, Dan Dugenske is seeing more customers comparison shopping the big send-off. Yes, times are tough, and like other industr...
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Inland Institutional plans investmentAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK - Inland Institutional Capital Partners Corp. announced that the company has negotiated an agreement on behalf of Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. to inv...
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Becker Professional signs agreementJul 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Oakbrook Terrace-based Becker Professional Review, a global firm specializing in professional education serving the accounting and finance professions and a division of ...
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Economy eating away at people eating outJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - More independent and chain restaurants in the suburbs are likely to close, following the lead set when some Bennigan's eateries locked their doors this week. Higher lab...
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US Biometrics takes on project in TexasJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Naperville-based US Biometrics and its subcontractor partner, Austin Biometrics, will supply fingerprint biometric products to the various departments in the Texas State...
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Restaurant owners respond to dieting food budgetsJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - When it costs $100 to fill up the car on the way home, the idea of ordering pizza for the family may be panned, said Rick Rosati, who runs a growing pizza chain. "Anybod...
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Best Buy opening in-store music centersJul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Hoping to cater to everyone from the garage guitarist to a recording musician, Best Buy Co. Inc. is announcing a massive new initiative that sets aside store space for a...
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McDonald's swings to 2Q profitJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Consumers helped bring McDonald's Corp. back to profitability in the second quarter by spending on breakfast biscuits, chicken sandwiches and drinks despite ...