Port Barrington Business
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Simon Property cooperating with FTC on Prime Outlets inquiryMay 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Simon Property Group Inc., the largest U.S. mall owner, is cooperating with a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into its proposed purchase of Prime Outlets Acquisition Co...
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Equity borrowing capacity declining with home valuesApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - About 6,000 homeowners received a letter recently from First American Bank in Elk Grove Village that said their home equity lines of credit would be reduced because thei...
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Street-legal scooters a great way to zip around townApr 27, 2010 11:00 pm - It's been just over a year since Bruce and Christy Erbeck opened Flat Squirrel Scooters along Randall Road in Lake in the Hills. In that time, they've helped introduce n...
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Elburn site offers a peep at what federal lawmakers are up toApr 22, 2010 11:00 pm - An Elburn-based Web site aims to keep taxpayers and voters informed by gathering together information from across the Web about federal legislators. Peepgov.com launched...
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Japanese, Thai ambassadors tour McHenry County businessesApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - If McHenry County is to climb its way out of the ongoing recession, and the double-digit unemployment rate it has brought the region, it is going to take a global approa...
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Many appliance shoppers face long lines but say rebates worth the waitApr 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Dick Kessler of Antioch was first in line at 4 a.m. Friday at Gurnee's Sears Grand to up his chances to snag federal funds for a new dishwasher. At 6 a.m. the doors open...
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Illinois high-speed rail still an improvement, feds sayApr 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo beat the drum for high-speed rail in Illinois Tuesday, acknowledging that while the state won't have the fastest trains in th...
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Business owners fear costs, regulations of health-care reformApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Health-care reform is supposed to lower costs, but among skeptical suburban business owners, at least one industry is sure to see a cost increase: tanning salons. Effect...
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Thousands of local jobless face loss of benefitsMar 29, 2010 11:00 pm - About 20,000 unemployed people around Illinois - more than half of them from Chicago and the suburbs - could see the end of their extended benefits starting this week. W...
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Provena case could lead to more tax exempt challenges of area hospitalsMar 20, 2010 11:00 pm - State revenue department officials are vowing to review other hospitals' property tax exemption applications in the wake of a precedent-setting state Supreme Court decis...