Wadsworth Business
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Allstate drops as profit falls on catastrophe lossesFeb 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, fell the most since October after fourth-quarter results missed analysts' estimates on losses tie...
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What’s on our minds? PlentyFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Ask local business owners what’s on their minds and you’ll get some interesting feedback — from financing to ethanol, beef shortages to Australia’s typhoon, and — of cou...
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DuPont Fabros readies Elk Grove site for more data center leasesFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Washington, D.C.-based DuPont Fabros Technology plans to invest about $180 million to build out the rest of the former Enesco building in Elk Grove Village and lease it ...
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Zion plant turns filth into fuelFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - When North Shore Sanitary District leaders looked for a better way to dispose of treated sludge and waste from sanitary sewage plants, they found it in Germany. It was ...
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Daily Herald wins awards for print qualityFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald has won two first-place awards for print quality in the nationwide 2011 Inland Print Quality Competition. The contest, sponsored by the Inland Press Ass...
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Discover takes over Allstate's banking businessFeb 07, 2011 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, is exiting the banking business and will sell about $1.1 billion in deposits to Discover Financia...
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Auto show's economic models sport figures to rev recoveryFeb 07, 2011 12:00 am - An old wives' tale insists that you can predict the veracity of the approaching winter by counting the brown bands of fuzz on woolly bear caterpillars. An old columnist'...
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Antioch Walmart reopensFeb 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Walmart officials announced their Antioch store reopened Monday morning, nearly four days after it had been shuttered because of the Blizzard of 2011. The store, at 475...
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Libertyville consignment store is boomingFeb 05, 2011 10:00 pm - The timing in the midst of a recession was curious to most observers, but two Libertyville women have seen their start-up business far exceed expectations. In early 200...
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Motorola Solutions cuts about 175 jobsFeb 03, 2011 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions said Friday it has cut around 175 jobs, mostly from its WiMax technology group. The cuts were primarily in Arlington Heights, Fort Wo...