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- Addo Elephant Park – Graaff-Reinet
I-294 rings up images of collecting tolls but, as of 2010, the tollway authority plans to start collecting pollution. The ongoing $6.3 billion lane-widening project will culminate with the installation of bioswales, depressed patches of land planted with native grasses that help control pollution and flooding from highway runoff. The bioswales will be installed by [...]
Two researchers, with help from Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, hope to find an innovative and quick method of detecting sewage in Lake Michigan, to more accurately target when beaches need a swim ban. The scientists are developing a way to use fluorescence in laundry detergents that flow into the lake after heavy storms to identify the [...]
The bright, art-filled rooms in the building at 7355 W. Wilson Ave. in Harwood Heights look more like a modern art museum than a manufacturing plant, which is exactly what Winzeler Gear Inc. president John Winzeler intended. Winzeler, a third generation manufacturer, is proud of the company he inherited. “[Manufacturing] was what my father did, [...]
In a world where customers seek speed and convenience, small banks are finding a way to stay ahead with online banking. As the numbers of online users increase so do consumer requirements. In fact, according to CashEdge’s second annual Consumer Online Banking Survey, which was released late last year, 85 percent of respondents would never [...]
Finding the needle maker in a haystack, what are companies doing to find and keep employees?
2008
When Sandra Westlund-Deenihan, third-generation owner of Quality Float Works Inc. in Schaumburg, looks over her shop floor, she sees an aging workforce, and wonders who their replacements will be and whether she’ll be able to pass the business on to her son. For years manufacturing was admired as a pillar of the Illinois economy. And [...]
New orders for manufactured goods dropped 2.5 percent as expected in January after four months of increases, but economists see some bright spots. The manufacturers’ shipments, inventories and orders report, a mix of measurements on durable and nondurable manufactured goods released by the U.S. Commerce Department, showed that new orders for manufacturing industries were down [...]