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The high road to a cleaner highway
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...
Researchers look for a quicker method to target accurate swim bans
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...
John Winzeler keeps the gears of his Harwood Heights manufacturing company moving
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...
Online banking gives small banks a big chance
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...
Finding the needle maker in a haystack, what are companies doing to find and keep employees?
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...
Manufactured goods’ orders drop 2.5 percent in January
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’...
New home sales fall to lowest level in 13 years
New single-family home sales fell 2.8 percent in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 588,000 units, the Census Bureau reported, reflecting a beaten and battered housing and mortgage market.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock digs itself out of a hole
Shares of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. surged as much as 6 percent before closing up 2.8 percent Tuesday after the company swung to a fourth-quarter profit.
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