Oak Brook Business
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Portillo chain opens 45th storeOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK -- The Portillo Restaurant Group's 45th restaurant opened in Willowbrook. The 9,600-square-foot restaurant will hire 200 workers. The Willowbrook location feat...
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Pet franchise comes to areaOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - Kevin McCormack understands how important pets are in people's lives. He recently launched Wag N' Wash Healthy Pet Center in Naperville for pet owners who want something...
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Leaders Bank wins workplace awardOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK -- Leaders Bank won the "Best and Brightest to Work For" award from the National Association for Business Resources. It is the second straight year the Oak Bro...
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From the 'brick' to the RazrOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - They changed the world -- in about 13 weeks. About 35 years ago, a team of Motorola Inc. engineers and others created the first portable cell phone called the DynaTAC. I...
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Briefs: Activist investor buys Sears stockOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - HOFFMAN ESTATES -- Shares in Sears Holdings Corp. rose sharply Friday as Wall Street reacted to news that activist hedge fund manager William Ackman has taken a stake in...
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Motorola shows the future ways we'll use technologyOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Motorola Inc. may be stinging from Apple's successful touch-access iPhone and Nokia's stranglehold on the global cell phone market. So what's it going to do? Diversify, ...
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Briefs: Airline flight delays lower in AugustOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. airlines improved their on-time flight arrival rate to 71.7 percent in August, a small increase from July, which ranked as one of the industry's worst...
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Motorola details layoff expensesOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. has spent around $343 million for severance and other costs related to eliminating 5,100 jobs so far this year, the company said in a fili...
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Verizon unveils cell phone to rival Apple iPhoneOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- In time for the holidays, Verizon Wireless is launching a cell phone that looks a lot like the hottest phone so far this year: Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Like the ...
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State unemployment above U.S. averageOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The Illinois unemployment rate in August rose to 5.4 percent, up 0.9 percentage points from the year-earlier 4.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Accord...