Copyright 2009 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:33:09 -0600 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:33:09 -0600 NBC Local Integrated Media http://www.nbcchicago.com/around-town/food-drink/The-Women-Behind-the-Steak-54603907.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:01:01 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/mortons-women-2.jpg
The Great American Steakhouse: Women are shattering the glass ceiling in one of the last frontiers of a stereotypically male industry.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/secure-flight-air-travel-tsa-rules-53005547.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:48:59 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/great-day-flying.jpg
They've already got your name, and they can search you. What's next?

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/tech/Google-Voice-Blocked-on-iPhone-jw.html Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:51:04 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*68/3648121891_6b62d8c257_b.jpg
Google and Apple are good buddies but their relationship wasn't enough to keep Apple from refusing to offer an application for the iPhone to access Google Voice.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Apple-Think-Album.html Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:37:01 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*68/ipods+and+headphones.jpg
Apple won't apologize for killing the music album -- but it will try to make things right.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/tech/Motorola-Phones-History-66929097.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:03:22 -0600 Motorola debuts its Droid phone , we look back at a history of the Schaumburg company's handheld devices.]]> http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/first_pic.jpg
As Droid launches, we look back at 36 years of Motorola phones.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Planned-Neighborhoods-Go-Wild.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:35:35 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/Overgrown+house.jpg
Numerous locales across Illinois never got the houses they were supposed to have.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/movies/This-Isnt-It-67094527.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:07:27 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/102709+This+Is+It.jpg
With movie and huge album sales, Jackson may be worth more in death than life. And that's bad...

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/television/Family-Guy-Breaks-Windows-66655962.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:56:40 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*65/031809+family+guy+p1.jpg
Microsoft's pullout as sponsor of raunchy special shows risks of melding comedy with commercials. Call it the Peter (Griffin) Principal…

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Westmont-First-DuPage-Bank-17th-Illinois-Bank-To-Fail-65897757.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:47:00 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*68/082708FDIC.jpg
Westmont's First DuPage Bank is the 17th Illinois bank to fail since 2008.

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Think that 75-year lease on Chicago's parking meters was a faulty, rushed deal? Chicago's Inspector General agrees.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/White_Collar_Criminals.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:25:43 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/rajrajaratnam.jpg
White-collar criminals cost the United States more than $300 billion annually according to the FBI. Here are a few more names that may ring an alarm bell...

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Sam-zell-looks-to-cash-in-on-a-Rio-olympics64073702.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:29:19 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*81/120808-Sam-Zell-1.jpg
The owner of the Tribune Company will make more from the Games in Rio than he would have in Chicago.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/teatro-zinzanni-chicago-63997717.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:36:28 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*80/731719402.jpg
Block 37 close to deal with Teatro ZinZanni and Sephora.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Marcus-Schrenker-Faked-Own-Death-Parachuted-Plane-Northwest-Indiana-Times-Exclusive-Jail-Interview-Bi-Polar-63963217.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:03:36 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/011409-Marcus-Schrenker-p1.jpg
The Indiana man who parachuted out of a plane to fake his own death speaks from his jail cell.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Study-More-Mustache--More-Money-63930997.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:01:59 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/102708-stache-jpg.jpg
A study performed by Quicken and the American Mustache Institute revealed that mustachioed men make more than their bearded and clean-shaven compatriots.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/How-One-Man-Averted-an-Identity-Theft-Epidemic-63927072.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:54:57 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*79/shredder.jpg
A San Francisco landlord saddled with sensitive documents did the right thing.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/around-town/cars/Hummer-Sold-For-150-Million-63874447.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:33:57 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/100909_HUMMER.jpg
Hummer, the gas-guzzling, muscular icon of the American road, has been sold to a Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Binnys-Buys-Sams-63857642.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:14:11 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/Martinigay.jpg
One Chicago powerhouse disappears while another one grows.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/NATL-Senate-Dems-Extend-Unemployment-Benefits-for-14-Weeks-63790937.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:44:01 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*80/010609+unemployment.jpg
The number of people filing for unemployment insurance for the first time has dropped to its lowest level since January -- a positive trend that comes as Senate Democrats struck a deal to give workers an...

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Japans-All-Nippon-Airways-Bladder-Flights-63703352.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:15:02 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/bathroom+generic+getty.jpg
Be sure to hit the facilities before takeoff.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Sex-Toy-Manufacturer-Sued-for-Stiffing-Workers-jw-63690287.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:17 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/22nd_and_tennessee.jpg
As anyone who's spent much time around the erotic entertainment industry knows, the reality of the business is much less sexy than the general public might imagine.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/NATL-Arab-States-US-Allies-Plot-to-Ditch-Dollar-in-Oil-Sales-Report--63583952.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:58:57 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/kuwait+oil-640.jpg
Arab states held secret meetings with finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil in a plot to end the pricing of oil in dollars, a move that would likely stoke tensions...

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There's a silver lining to the Great Recession: Prices on everything from coffee to cat food are falling to unheard of levels.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/BofA-CEO-Scores-53M-Retirement-Package-63177372.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:23:55 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*87/ken+lewis.JPG
Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company after a year of strife that followed his bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., but it's not like he's going to be hard up for...

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Recession-Pets-Food-Dish-Suffers-Last-62936907.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:04:29 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/Dog+Eating+Food+from+Dish.jpg
What's good enough for you isn't for your dog, according to a new study.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/around-town/cars/NATLGM-Pulling-E-Brake-on-Saturn-Brand-62949207.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:12:50 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*68/saturn+man.jpg
General Motors announced Wednesday that it will no longer make Saturn vehicles after a deal to sell the popular brand to Penske Automotive Group Inc. fell apart.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Halloween-Bailout-62877467.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:09:49 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/0809traumapumpkin.jpg
Only 62 percent of Americans will celebrate Halloween this year, survey says.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Walgreens-new-liquor-department-62873637.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:52:54 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*76/walgreens.jpg
Walgreens announced Tuesday that they will be bring beer and wine back, after a two-decade hiatus.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/Man-Sues-Froot-Loops-for-Not-Being-Frooty-at-All-62674757.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:56:19 -0600 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kl_paige/ /
Is froot the same as fruit? Roy Werbel thought so and now he is mad about it.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Crackdown-Continues-on-TSAs-Luggage-Looters-62573027.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:53:19 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/092909+tsa.jpg
Between long delays, the lousy food and the even lousier in-flight movies, airline travel couldn't get much worse, unless you happen to be going through Miami, where TSA workers charged with making our skies...

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Ebony-Mag-62337272.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:16:35 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*76/ebonymag.jpg
Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Co. is reportedly letting go of Ebony magazine because of economic hardships.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Two-Chicago-Companies-Ranked-in-Top-15-Small-Businesses-62328807.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:36:30 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/Sinise_Steppenwolf.jpg
Two Chicago companies get ranked among top 15 small businesses in the nation.

]]> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Some-Olympic-Tickets-Will-Be-Affordable-62327042.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:54:01 -0600 http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/120*90/Oly_support_mixed_3.jpg
The opening and closing ceremonies might be a bit out of your price-range, but free fits just perfectly.

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