Cook County Business
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Walgreen's giving free care to jobless and uninsuredMar 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor a...
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Sun-Times Media Group files for bankruptcyMar 30, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Sun-Times Media Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, making it the fifth new...
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Records show Tribune Co. lobbied BlagoMar 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Tribune Co. was secretly negotiating with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich on a deal in which the state would buy Wrigley Field even as federal investigators were closing in on...
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Kraft Foods CEO got compensation of $16 million in 2008Mar 30, 2009 11:00 pm - The chief executive of Kraft Foods Inc., maker of brands like Oreo and Nabisco, received compensation worth $16 million in 2008, an increase of 38 percent from the prior...
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Jail for insider trading at now-Moto unitMar 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Britain's financial regulator sent its first person to prison for illegal insider trading after the former general counsel of TTP Communications Plc, now a Motorola Inc....
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Fortune Brands blamed for Absolut slumpMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Pernod Ricard SA, the distiller of Absolut vodka and Glenlivet scotch, plans to get through the recession and pay off its debts with help from the bartenders slinging $1...
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Navistar to buy RV assets of Monaco CoachMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. -- Navistar International Corp. said Thursday it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent buy Monaco Coach Corp.'s recreational vehicle manufacturing busi...
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Agrium increases takeover offer for CF IndustriesMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Agrium Inc., North America's third- largest fertilizer producer, increased its takeover offer for CF Industries Holdings Inc., four days after CF challenged Agrium to pa...
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AT&T to start sending copyright warningsMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that the...
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Lisle's SmartSignal marks 10 years of innovationMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - What started as an idea to help companies avoid catastrophes, Lisle-based SmartSignal Corp. turned into a multimillion-dollar firm with 97 workers serving 75 customers w...