McHenry County Business
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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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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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Area businessman Al Tinoly dies at 68Mar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - In 1998, two years after Roosevelt University opened the Robin campus in Schaumburg, Alfred J. Tinoly joined its community advisory board. Having earned his master's deg...
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Under the pressure, it finally cracksMar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Motorola Inc. intends to reinvigorate its floundering business by spinning itself off into two separate companies while still maintaining its suburban and Chicago operat...
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Plan for the long haul when selling your businessMar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Planning to sell your business? Better plan for the long haul. The three years it took Robert Boncosky to sell his Lake in the Hills trucking company, Boncosky Services,...
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SuitePlay! offers to pay if Cubs winMar 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Algonquin-based SuitePlay!, a retailer of fun home furnishings, said that all store purchases made through April 14 will be 100 percent reimbursed, excluding tax and del...
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Diesel stalls area truckersMar 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Skyrocketing diesel prices along with the economic downturn are proving to be a one-two punch for the local trucking industry. Truckers and trucking companies are slowin...
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Assistant to Sears CEO dead at 73Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Less than three months after former Sears Chairman and CEO Edward A. Brennan passed away at the age of 73, his longtime secretary and administrative assistant, Lou Fryz,...
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Housing thaw on the way?Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Realtor Connie Hofherr sold a home in Palatine for $430,000 in just five days in February, and her colleagues at Starck Realtors in Mount Prospect also sold some homes. ...
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Peapod upgrades Web with NutriFilterMar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - If you're like most shoppers with dietary restrictions, you'll often stand in the aisle reading food labels before putting an item in the cart. Or, if you shop on www.Pe...