DuPage County Business
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Boeing to pay $2 million over whistleblower claimsAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN ANTONIO -- The Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $2 million to the Justice Department to settle a whistle-blower's previously sealed claims that the company overbilled th...
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General Growth may be forced to sell mallAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - General Growth Properties Inc., the bankrupt real estate investment trust, is faced with a motion in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan by Citicorp North America Inc...
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DeVry's Becker in partnershipAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - OAKBROOK TERRACE - Becker Professional Education, a subsidiary of DeVry Inc. Monday announced a partnership with the Howard University School of Business Center for Acco...
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Redbox reaches home-video deal with Lions GateAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Coinstar Inc.'s Redbox division agreed to pay Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. $158 million over five years to distribute the studio's DVDs in rental kiosks. Redbox is bas...
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Gasification test facility opensAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - DES PLAINES - Gas Technology Institute commissioned an Advanced Gasification Test Facility, a five-level process research building that houses pilot-scale gasification a...
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SEC probes Huron Consulting in wake of scandalAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe of Huron Consulting Group Inc. in the wake of an accounting scandal at the legal and financial ad...
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Fire at Smurfit-Stone factoryAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - TORRINGTON, Conn. -- Dozens of Connecticut firefighters have contained a blaze at a former cardboard package factory in Torrington. The four-alarm fire at the former Smu...
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Hartmarx completes $128.4 million saleAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Hartmarx Corp., the maker of Hickey Freeman and Hart Schaffner Marx suits, completed its sale to private-equity firm Emerisque Brands U.K. Ltd. and its partner, SKNL Nor...
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McDonald's July same-store sales rise 4.3 percentAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- McDonald's Corp. said Monday its same-store sales climbed 4.3 percent in July, as the nation's biggest hamburger chain benefited from budget-conscious consum...
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Detached suburban home sales up 11.6%Aug 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Sales of single-family detached homes went up 11.6 percent in July compared with the same period a year ago, according to data released Friday by the Mainstreet Organiza...