McHenry County Business
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Elgin may finally ink Walmart superstore dealJul 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Elgin leaders are prepared to offer up to $8 million in incentives for a new Walmart superstore and Sam's Club to be built along Randall and Bowes roads on the city's fa...
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Hugh Hefner offers to take Playboy privateJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Hugh Hefner's offer to take Playboy Enterprises Inc. private drew the promise of a competing bid on Monday from the owner of archrival Penthouse magazine. Tha...
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Weyerhaeuser to pay $5.6 billion to shareholdersJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Weyerhaeuser plans to distribute $5.6 billion to shareholders through a special dividend, the company said Monday, a required step in Weyerhaeuser's path to ...
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Aon to buy Lincolnshire-based Hewitt for $4.9 billionJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - How Lincolnshire-based Hewitt Associates Inc. will look once its merger with Aon Corp. is completed in mid-November is still unknown. But expect some type of cuts involv...
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Jones Lang to buy General Growth management unitJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., the second-largest publicly traded commercial property broker, is acquiring a unit of bankrupt General Growth Properties Inc. to manage and leas...
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Janney analyst upgrades IDEX to 'buy'Jul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - IDEX Corp (IEX US) was raised to "Buy" from "Neutral" at Janney Montgomery by equity analyst James Lucas. The 12-month target price is $40.00 per share. Idex is based in...
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Equity Residential boosting debtJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Chicago-based Equity Residential, the largest publicly traded U.S. apartment landlord, sold $600 million of 10-year notes after boosting the offering by $100 million. Th...
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Cockpit windows on Boeing aircraft ordered inspected, replacedJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Boeing Co. 757, 767 and 777 jets flown by U.S. airlines must have the cockpit windows inspected or replaced after 11 reports of fires in the past two decades, the Federa...
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FirstMerit, Takeda, other suburban firms plan layoffsJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Companies were preparing to layoff about 2,000 workers statewide, including many around the suburbs, according to documents filed with the Illinois Department of Commerc...
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Fresh Wave wins awardJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - BARRINGTON - OMI Industries, makers of the eco-friendly odor eliminating product line Fresh Wave, Friday said that the Fresh Wave Continuous Release Crystal Gel has rece...