Park Ridge Business
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Jobs workshop Monday at Schaumburg libaryJul 08, 2012 5:36 pm - A free jobs workshop will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 9, at the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg. The event will include sessi...
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Manufacturing making slow resurgence in the suburbsJul 08, 2012 7:00 am - Acme Industries in the last six months alone hired 53 new employees to help churn out locomotive engine components, mining truck steering arms and other large, complex h...
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Hot or cold? Outdoor workers can do without either oneJul 05, 2012 10:00 am - When it comes to sweltering heat or blistering cold, is there a lesser of two evils? Not necessarily, say people who work outdoors — they both stink in their own specia...
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Restoration of ComEd power could take daysJul 02, 2012 6:51 pm - Though ComEd crews have been working steadily to restore power to the approximately 250,000 customers affected by Sunday’s storms, it could take a couple more days to co...
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Harper officially announces Advanced Manufacturing programJun 27, 2012 2:54 pm - As local manufacturers struggle to find skilled workers and jobs go unfilled, Harper College is preparing to launch an Advanced Manufacturing program designed to train w...
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Emory U. buys NanoInk system to quantify forcesJun 27, 2012 9:48 am - NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division, of Skokie, said Emory University recently purchased a Dip Pen Nanolithography system to quantify the forces exerted by single...
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Community Service Part of Northwestern Mutual Internship ExperienceJun 26, 2012 11:00 pm - Service learning is nothing new, but for students participating in an internship with Northwestern Mutual's, The McTigue Financial Group, it ties directly to the firm's ...
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Industrial expansions have Schaumburg optimistic about economyJun 25, 2012 4:00 pm - Schaumburg could see further expansion of its industrial base later this year if the Cook County Board approves three companies' requests for property tax incentives to ...
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Editorial: A new approach to train for manufacturing jobsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Regular readers of our Opinion Page commentaries know that we long have been impressed by Harper College President Kenneth Ender’s energizing call for an integrated appr...
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Harper, manufacturers team to replenish pipeline of skilled workersJun 24, 2012 11:00 pm - When Wheeling High School principal Laz Lopez took the reigns in 2007, he immediately went to work on revamping curriculum to emphasize career pathways for a 21st centur...