DuPage County Business
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Allstate to repurchase $1 billion in sharesNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, approved a $1 billion share buyback program. “We can resume providing additional cash returns to ...
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Accretive Health to create 650 jobs in ChicagoNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Accretive Health Inc., a Chicago-based health care financial services company, plans to hire 650 new employees at its new Accretive Health processing facility at 231 S. ...
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Brookdale Senior Living stock halted by trading circuit breakerNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Brookdale Senior Living Inc.'s stock was halted following a 13 percent surge that triggered a circuit breaker implemented after the U.S. equity market crash in May. An o...
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Elgin retirement home likely to remain closedNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - The state of Illinois wants to make sure the owners of the now-shuttered Bowes Retirement Center in Elgin don't open a similar facility again. An injunction filed by the...
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Virgin America to add O'Hare flightsNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Virgin America Inc., the low-fare airline partly owned by U.K. billionaire Richard Branson, plans to add flights to Chicago, Atlanta and Houston next year if it can secu...
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Higher commodity costs pull Sara Lee 1Q net downNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Sara Lee Corp. says its first-quarter net income declined 32 percent, weighed down by higher commodity costs and increased marketing spending. The maker of Jimmy Dean sa...
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Integrys Energy to repay debtNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Chicago-based Integrys Energy Group Inc. plans to sell senior notes to repay commercial paper and fund the repayment of 6.9 percent unsecured senior notes due in January...
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Commercial property deals to climb up to 40%, Jones Lang saysNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - U.S. commercial property transactions will increase as much as 40 percent in 2011 from this year as the economy expands, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. Buyers and ...
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United leads in on-time arrivalsNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - CHICAGO — United Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Continental Holdings Inc., today announced that the airline was first in on-time performance for domestic ...
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Sara Lee to sell N. American bakery unit for $959 mil.Nov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Downers Grove-based Sara Lee is cutting the apron strings on its unit that bakes bread, selling it to Mexican bakery giant Grupo Bimbo for $959 million as it looks to co...