Cook County Business
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ComEd to raise electric bills in JuneMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - You can expect to pay more for electricity starting in June. About 3.4 million residential customers of ComEd will pay 2.5 percent more, or about $2 more a month based o...
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Emphasis on fuel efficiencyMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When Donna Namath leaves Kenosha, Wis., at 6:15 a.m. every weekday to travel to her job at Baxter International in Deerfield, she is not too worried about gasoline price...
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Motorola's Reed gets buyoutMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The former head of Motorola Inc.'s mobile phone business has walked away with about $2 million in salary and other payments, according to a federal filing Tuesday. Stu R...
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Motorola's revolving executives persistMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - When new chief executives take over companies, it's not unusual for them to clean house and appoint new executives. But when it happens at Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc....
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United workers get profit sharing payMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - United Airlines said Wednesday it has distributed $110 million in profit-sharing payments to U.S.-based employees. The means 51,000 U.S.-based employees can expect to re...
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Littlefuse to relocate foreign job siteMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Des Plaines-based Littelfuse Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to transfer its semiconductor assembly and test operation from Matamoros, Mexico, to China in a phased tra...
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Embezzler derails FastTrackMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - After more than 20 years, FastTrack Application Development is closing its doors in Addison and laying off all 115 workers by September. After an employee was convicted ...
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Accounting firm Porte Brown expands client baseMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Elk Grove Village-based accounting firm Porte Brown LLC is growing, despite a choppy economy, after notching its third acquisition in two years with the purchase of Moun...
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Area laptop repair firm gets bigger as notebooks get smallerMar 01, 2008 10:00 pm - As the popularity of laptops increase, so can the problems. What do you do when your laptop doesn't power up, or your coffee has spilled on it, or the screen is cracked?...
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Hoffman Estates Cabela's to lay off 40Feb 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Cabela's has announced it will cut 40 full-time jobs from its Hoffman Estates location because the superstore is underperforming. The cuts are representative of a slumpi...