Cook County Business
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McDonald's ends test run with Pepsi, sticks with CokeFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - McDonald's Corp. stopped selling PepsiCo Inc.'s bottled Mountain Dew and Gatorade, ending a test that challenged Coca-Cola Co., the exclusive fountain-drink provider to ...
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Enterprise fuming over suburban rental taxFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Enterprise Rent-A-Car says the city of Chicago is overstepping its bounds with a tax on suburban drivers who use their rentals primarily in the city. The Nevada-based c...
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Allstate halves dividend after losses, ending 14-year streakFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, slashed its dividend 51 percent after posting two straight quarterly losses, ending a 14- year st...
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Judge approves Advocate settlement with uninsuredFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Tens of thousands of uninsured patients might qualify for refunds on payments they made to eight Chicago and suburban hospitals under a settlement in a class-action laws...
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Music business expands focus, locationFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - A South Elgin music store is picking up the tempo with an expansion into Huntley. Music Education Centers of America, a full-service music store that has operated in So...
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Northrop to begin building more drones for NavyFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- Northrop Grumman's Unmanned Systems Center in Moss Point, Miss., has received a deal from the Navy worth up to $40 million to begin building the last batch ...
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Baxter mistakenly sends bird flu virus into EuropeFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Baxter International Inc. in Austria unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in three neighboring countries, raising ...
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Motorola raised to 'neutral' at Credit SuisseFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Motorola Inc., the second-biggest U.S. seller of mobile phones, was raised to "neutral" from "underperform" at Credit Suisse Group AG, which cited "increased confidence ...
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Navistar delivers military ATVs for testingFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - As a producer of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, Warrenville-based Navistar Defense, will compete to supply it's newsest specialty vehicle. The company deliver...
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AT&T plans $1 bil global network expansionFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, plans to invest about $1 billion in 2009 to build out its global network and add services for businesses. The expansion...