Cook County Business
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Trading services, items instead of spending cashAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Interest in an age-old practice is increasing as thousands are bartering using "trade dollars" in place of cash. Dentistry for computer services. A real estate appraisa...
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Boeing to pay $2 million over whistleblower claimsAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN ANTONIO -- The Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $2 million to the Justice Department to settle a whistle-blower's previously sealed claims that the company overbilled th...
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General Growth may be forced to sell mallAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - General Growth Properties Inc., the bankrupt real estate investment trust, is faced with a motion in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan by Citicorp North America Inc...
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Gasification test facility opensAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - DES PLAINES - Gas Technology Institute commissioned an Advanced Gasification Test Facility, a five-level process research building that houses pilot-scale gasification a...
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SEC probes Huron Consulting in wake of scandalAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe of Huron Consulting Group Inc. in the wake of an accounting scandal at the legal and financial ad...
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Fire at Smurfit-Stone factoryAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - TORRINGTON, Conn. -- Dozens of Connecticut firefighters have contained a blaze at a former cardboard package factory in Torrington. The four-alarm fire at the former Smu...
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Hartmarx completes $128.4 million saleAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Hartmarx Corp., the maker of Hickey Freeman and Hart Schaffner Marx suits, completed its sale to private-equity firm Emerisque Brands U.K. Ltd. and its partner, SKNL Nor...
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Daily Herald now offers mobile Web siteAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald, owned by Arlington Heights-based Paddock Publications Inc., this week launched its mobile Web site. Whenever you go to DailyHerald.com on your hand-he...
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Nuveen gets $50 million loanAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Nuveen Investments, the Chicago-based asset manager taken private by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC in 2007, got an additional loan to fully utilize the $500 million seco...
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Boeing's July orders, deliveries drop on lower demandAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Boeing Co., the world's second- biggest commercial-jet builder, said it won 44 orders and delivered 33 aircraft last month, bringing total purchase contracts this year t...