Oak Brook Business
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Olympic Committee leader asks for business community's supportJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - About 150 area business leaders attended the annual meeting of the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau on Thursday to hear an update on Chicago's bid for the 2...
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Small loans a big businessJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Clementine Uzabakiriho parlayed her first $36 loan into the seed money for her sorghum business in Rwanda. Oak Brook-based Opportunity International arranged the loan th...
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Tomatoes back at McDonald'sJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - McDonald's Corp. says it will begin serving sliced tomatoes again after a multistate salmonella outbreak caused the world's largest restaurant chain to yank the vegetabl...
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Bartering grows as economy stallsJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Kindergarten CDs are available for swaps online at uSwapit.com Schaumburg-based Ala Carte Entertainment and its 25 area restaurants use two barter exchanges to obtain it...
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Wisconsin firm sues Motorola over wireless video technologyJun 09, 2008 11:00 pm - A small company that developed wireless video filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court alleging Motorola Inc. used its technology in the Razr and Moto Q phones with...
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McDonald's sales rise 7.7 percentJun 09, 2008 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK - McDonald's global same-store sales rose 7.7 percent in May, the world's biggest hamburger chain said Monday. The company said U.S. same-store sales, or sales...
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Grainger to hold open house at new Aurora facilityJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Lake Forest-based W.W. Grainger, a distributor of facilities maintenance supplies, is hosting an open house today for business customers to celebrate the company's new f...
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Molex launches line of connectorsJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Lisle-based Molex Inc. announced a new line of sealed circular connectors. Extra Rugged Circular Sealed Plugs and Receptacles have been developed to meet the requirement...
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Rush-Copley signs on with AllscriptsJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Aurora-based Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve health care, announced Thursday that Rush...
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Travelers mourn loss of Ted amid United cutbacksJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Ted, we hardly knew ye. Along with layoffs and reductions in its fleet, United Airlines announced Wednesday the elimination of its low-cost carrier Ted, launched less th...