Kane County Business
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In-flight Internet access set to launchMar 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Business and leisure travelers soon will be able to go to their home Web pages, check e-mail and surf the Internet -- all while on a transcontinental flight. Itasca-bas...
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Take on the tickerMar 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Alexander Paris Sr. of Barrington Hills is president of Barrington Asset Management, Chicago What moved the markets last week? "There was kind of an about face; the mark...
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Movers and shakersMar 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Brian Sager was named interim vice president for learning and student support services at McHenry County College. Sager has served as an instructor of animal and plant s...
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From Maxwell Street scavenger to millionaireMar 28, 2008 11:00 pm - William Kaper Jr. was 10 years old when he scavenged at the city dump at 31st Street and Cicero Avenue on Chicago's South Side. He could find just about anything -- a bi...
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Caterpillar thriving during hardest timesMar 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Caterpillar executives talk a lot these days about how 2007 had the makings of a disaster. Its truck engine and construction equipment sales in North America plunged and...
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There's a new Sears in townMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Sue White of South Elgin walked into the new Sears Home Appliance Showroom on Thursday as if on cue. She had been driving along Randall Road in South Elgin when she deci...
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How can Motorola make the next hit phone?Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Some people pick a mobile phone like a spouse. It has to be attractive with brains. But then some groups have special needs or demands: teens want text-messaging and mus...
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Restoration sued over buyout offerMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Restoration Hardware Inc., the Corte Madera, Calif.-based home-furnishings chain, was sued by shareholder Randall Reimer, who contends a proposed $4.50-a-sha...
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Furniture company finds success despite global competitionMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - As a furniture sales rep back in the 1990s, Ron Bartkowski saw change was coming. He heard American companies tell him how they couldn't compete with furniture makers ov...
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Sears taps Circuit City executiveMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Sears Holdings Corp., in the midst of its latest turnaround plan, on Thursday said it hired former Circuit City executive John W. Froman to oversee its Tools and Lawn & ...