Articles filed under Chicago
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Northern Trust plans $1.25 bil sale to repay TARPApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Northern Trust Corp. plans to sell $1.25 billion in common stock and senior notes so that it can repurchase the stake sold to the U.S. Treasury. Northern Trust intends t...
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Bears sign nine rookie free agents for tryoutsApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - The Chicago Bears have signed the following nine undrafted rookie free agents to contracts: Johan Asiata, offensive guard, UNLV Dennis Conley, offensive guard, Hampton D...
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Sun-Times reports stable circulationApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Circulation declines at the nation's newspapers are speeding up. The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Monday that average daily circulation declined 7.1 per...
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Hammond man found dead on South SideApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Chicago police say the body of a 31-year-old Indiana man has been found on the city's South Side. Chicago police say Nathaniel Hoover of Hammond Ind., was found before 3...
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Jury deliberates in Sears Tower terror trialApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- A federal jury in Miami has begun deliberating the fate of six men charged with plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices around the countr...
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Burris slips up introducing Durbin on Biden tourApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is younger than Sen. Roland Burris, but that didn't stop Burris from calling his fellow Democrat Illinois' "senior citizen." The 71-year-old Burris...
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School taking steps to fight swine fluApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Concern about a deadly strain of swine flu has prompted one Chicago school in a largely Hispanic neighborhood to forbid students from shaking hands. Orozco Community Aca...
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Boeing CEO calls slump 'once-in-a-lifetime' eventApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Boeing Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Jim McNerney assured shareholders Monday that the company is in strong shape to ride out the "once-in-a-lifetime" downturn that h...
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Simon tried to buy General Growth malls, chief saysApr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Simon Property Group Inc., the largest U.S. shopping-mall owner by stock-market value, tried to buy real estate from General Growth Properties Inc. before it filed for b...
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Chicago real estate auctioneer Sheldon Good files Chapter 11Apr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Sheldon F. Good Realty Inc., a real estate auctioneer based in Chicago, filed a Chapter 11 petition on April 24 in New York along with nine affiliates. In a statement al...