Cook County Business
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GMAC extends debt exchange offers againDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- GMAC Financial Services late Friday extended and sweetened its offer to exchange $38 billion of its debt, saying that it had reached a tentative deal with re...
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Blackhawks' legends to sign wine bottlesDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS - Teddy's Liquors, 1050 E. Rand Road, Arlington Heights, is hosting a wine tasting and signing to promote the NHL Alumni Signature Wine Series from 5 t...
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P.M. Bedroom Gallery a family affairDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - The story of brothers Arvid and Ben Huth is the kind of farm-to-suburbs tale you might think doesn't happen any more. When he was 21, Arvid was a junior with a 3.9 GPA w...
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Shake-up continues at TicketsNow.comDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Did Cheryl Rosner resign on her own or was she asked? The chief executive officer of TicketsNow.com in Rolling Meadows has been on board for about 1½ years, including t...
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Suit: Walgreen owes Express Scripts $25 millionDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore chain, owes Express Scripts Inc. more than $25 million, the pharmacy benefits manager said in a lawsuit filed in federal court i...
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Specialty toy stores unwrap successful seasonDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Amid the blizzard of treacherous economic news, it appears toys are a sweet spot heading into the holidays. Owners of some suburban specialty toy stores say that parents...
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Are you spending less?Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Heating bills, salary cuts and increasing food costs are forcing many parents to trim family budgets. But the look on a child's face when they see holiday gifts is toug...
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Office Depot details closures; 7 to close in suburbsDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Office Depot is closing 17 Illinois stores - a handful in the north and western suburbs - as part of an effort to close 112 stores nationwide to cut costs. Locally, sto...
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Citi downgrades Discover Financial ServicesDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - American Express Co. tumbled as much as 12 percent after Citigroup Inc. recommended dumping shares of the credit-card company because of regulatory restrictions and moun...
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Kraft cuts prices on Maxwell House, YubanDec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Kraft Foods Inc., the world's second- largest foodmaker, reduced the price of some Maxwell House and Yuban ground coffees after green coffee prices fell. The reduction o...