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Wall Street gains ground amid steady flow of earnings reports, upbeat economic updates
Nov 05, 2025 4:03 pm - Stocks gained ground on Wall Street Wednesday following several upbeat economic updates and a steady flow of quarterly reports from U.S. companies. The gains were broad and marked a reversal from the prior day's dip.
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Musk the trillionaire? Debate over his Tesla pay package rages
Nov 05, 2025 3:51 pm - Elon Musk turned off many potential buyers of his Tesla cars and sent sales plunging with his foray into politics. But the stock has soared anyway and now he wants the company to pay him more — a lot more.Shareholders gathering Thursday for Tesla's annual meeting in Austin, Texas, will decide in a proxy vote whether to grant Musk, the company's CEO and already the richest person in the world, enough stock to potentially make him history's first trillionaire.
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Is condo board required to send out proxy form for annual election?Nov 05, 2025 2:22 pm - Is a condominium association board required to send out a proxy form for the annual election?
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Wine tastings at suburban clubs becoming popular affairsNov 05, 2025 10:41 am - Like several other private suburban clubs, Kemper Lakes Golf Club hosts wine tastings throughout the year. The Kildeer club’s marquee event, featuring more than 30 vendors, takes place this weekend and is expected to attract 700 wine enthusiasts.
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Illinois bill ‘decouples’ state, federal taxes, raising revenue and angering businesses
Nov 05, 2025 10:28 am - Illinois lawmakers approved a bill last week to “decouple” some state taxes on businesses from the federal government. The changes allow Illinois to collect more taxes from corporations after the federal domestic policy bill passed this summer reduced taxes for many businesses.
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Join the club: What small businesses can learn from luxury brands about building loyaltyNov 05, 2025 9:38 am - This month I’m focusing on the nuance of marketing strategy when it goes right and when it goes wrong and what small business marketers can look to do to borrow from the big brands.
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Vernon Hills toymaker gears up for Supreme Court fight over Trump’s tariffs
Nov 05, 2025 7:39 am - Rick Woldenberg’s Vernon Hills toymaking companies — Learning Resources Inc. and hand2mind Inc. — sued in April to invalidate the tariffs as exceeding President Donald Trump’s authority. The suit is now before the Supreme Court in one of the most economically important clashes in the country's history.
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Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump’s sweeping unilateral tariffs
Nov 05, 2025 7:33 am - Conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump's sweeping unilateral tariffs midway through arguments in a case that's a pivotal test of executive power for a tool central to his broader agenda.
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Fast-fashion giant Shein draws shoppers and protesters as it opens its first store in Paris
Nov 05, 2025 7:29 am - Crowds of shoppers — and protesters — turned out Wednesday for the opening of fast-fashion giant Shein's first permanent store in Paris inside one of the city's most iconic department stores.
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President Donald Trump, in Miami, brags about the economy despite an election-night rebuke
Nov 05, 2025 7:12 am - President Donald Trump took a victory lap on the economy on the one-year anniversary of his successful election, boasting of cheaper prices and saying the U.S. is the envy of the globe even while the Republican Party faced a rebuke from voters anxious about their own finances in Tuesday's off-year elections.