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Netherlands company buys Hess Industries in Niles
WSBT has learned a company in the Netherlands has purchased Hess Industries. Fontijne Formitt bought the intellectual property of the Niles company. The company's sales and marketing assistant who tells us this will mean new jobs in the area, but...
Tags: Industrial Production, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Netherlands, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Old National Bank acquiring 24 branches in Indiana, Michigan
South Bend TribuneAn Evansville-based bank is making moves to significantly increase the size of its footprint in Michiana. Old National Bank executives announced Wednesday that the company is buying 24 branches from Bank of America in South Bend, Elkhart and southern...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Bank of America Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Economy, Business and Finance
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Michiana high school athletes ink on Signing Day
Here is a list of Michiana high school athletes who signed letters of intent on Signing Day: South Bend St. Joseph's: Sarah Hall Soccer Western Illinois Ali Connelly Soccer West Virginia Kyle Zappia Baseball Dayton Melissa Macillari...Tags: Volleyball, Golf, Colleges and Universities, College Football, West Virginia
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FACTBOX-U.S. coal-fired power plants scheduled to shut
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - U.S. power companies plan to shut or convert over 50,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired plants over the next several years as cheap natural gas prices and strict environmental rules have made coal the more expensive option in some areas....Tags: Barack Obama, Dynegy Incorporated, Bay Shore, Springfield, Edison International
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Secretary of state's office says it wasn't behind on rent
The story, as reported this month in local news outlets, was rather embarrassing: The Illinois secretary of state's driver services operation in Niles had been evicted because the agency was late paying its rent. On May 6, Dave Drucker, a spokesman...Tags: Golf, Jesse White, Rentals, Inland Real Estate Corp., Office and Retail Spaces
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Girls track | Twins boost New Trier team
A casual observer of the Class 3A sectional track meet at Loyola on Thursday could have been fooled into believing one girl showed amazing stamina in winning the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs. Most in the area, however, are familiar with New Trier...
Tags: Track and Field
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Calvin R. Sutker, 1923-2013
As a Cook County Board commissioner, Calvin R. Sutker gained support from his fellow county commissioners to bring the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center to Skokie. As a Skokie village trustee, he helped pass the first open housing law in...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Army, Irwin, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Chicago
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Oak Park teacher receives Golden Apple
John Paulett leads almost all of his classes at Fenwick High School while the students sit in chairs formed in a circle. It's a way that provokes discussion and critical thinking for some of the tough topics he tackles in his theology classes at the...
Tags: Walter Payton, Students, Joliet, High Schools, Colleges and Universities
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Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Warrenville, Winfield police blotter: April 23
The following are taken from police reports: Wheaton •Residents are asked to be on alert after a driver approached a boy and offered him candy on April 16 around 3:30 p.m. near Danada Drive and Naperville Road. The older Oldsmobile was occupied...
Tags: Downers Grove, Lombard, West Chicago, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Winfield
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Niles, Park Ridge police warn of solicitations
Late on a Saturday afternoon in March, a young woman with a clipboard came to Janet Van De Carr's house in Park Ridge. Since it was before this month's municipal election, she figured it was about a candidate. Instead, the woman said she was checking on...
Tags: Media Industry
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Arrangements Pending
Bivins, Zachary Paul, 49, of South Bend, died Wednesday; Clark-O'Neal Funeral Home, South Bend. Funkhouser, Geneva, 88, of South Bend, died Thursday; Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola. Grabowski, Mary, 82, of South Bend, died; St. Joseph Funeral Home,...Tags: Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Wilmette
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Niles and Glenview still fighting over water bill
After almost two years in court, Niles officials say Glenview still owes them about $8.2 million in a water bill dispute. The villages filed lawsuits against each other in 2011. A Cook County judge recently ruled that Niles overcharged Glenview from...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Lawyers, Justice System
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