Cook County Business
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Former Lucent building gains tenantJan 23, 2008 10:00 pm - Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp. said Wednesday it has signed a 15-year lease for one of its businesses to move into the Naperville office center formerly occupie...
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Motorola stock sinks on profit warningJan 23, 2008 10:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profits plunged 84 percent and next quarter could be worse, news that sent its stock into a free fall. M...
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ITW unveils new hanging systemJan 23, 2008 10:00 pm - SCHAUMBURG -- ITW Brands, a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc., introduced Tap-N-Lock by E-Z Ancor, a revolutionary drywall anchor that installs like a nail and hangs ...
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Career Ed hit by tighter creditJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - HOFFMAN ESTATES -- The shares of for-profit education companies, including Career Education Corp., plunged after SLM Corp., the largest U.S. loan provider, said it would...
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Aero-Tech's energy efficient light bulb looks 'normal'Jan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - As Congress considers legislation that would phase out the incandescent light bulb, a Schaumburg company is grooming what it hopes could be the traditional bulb's succes...
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UAL says it's ready if merger is bestJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - United Airlines parent UAL Corp. is in "very good position" to pair up with another carrier despite a money-losing fourth quarter, CEO Glenn Tilton said Tuesday. Tilton ...
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Motorola investors may not be sold on Razr 2Jan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Motorola Inc.'s Greg Brown, in his first earnings report today as chief executive officer, may post disappointing sales of the Razr 2 phone after holiday shoppers flocke...
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Pessimism will pass by mid-year, economist tells local businessmenJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Likening the last financial year to an "unbelievable roller coaster ride," economist Robert Genetski addressed several hundred people this morning at an annual economic ...
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Sears plan pleases investorsJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Shares of Sears Holdings Corp., the retailer run by investor Edward Lampert, rose the most in more than a year in trading Tuesday after the company provided details abou...
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Slowdown impacts many area businessesJan 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Weakness in the economy has long been evident to Robert A. Mecca, a life-planning consultant in Mount Prospect who said the economic slowdown has taken its toll on his c...