Melissa Harris' Chicago Confidential
Where Chicago's future CEOs go to school - August 7, 2011 - It does not appear anywhere on their official bios, but the chief executives of Walgreen Co., Deere & Co., Health Care Service Corp. and USG Corp., to name a few, all graduated from the same training program on their way to the top spot.
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Ask Rex Huppke: I Just Work Here
I Just Work Here: Try a little humility - August 7, 2011 - I believe it was Gandhi who once said, "Can't you people just mix in a little humility?" (I didn't actually Google that quote, but I'm pretty sure it's right.)
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Gregory Karp
Clark Howard's advice? Spend small, live large - August 5, 2011 - Among advice-givers who talk about smart spending, Clark Howard is perhaps the dean.
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Gail MarksJarvis
Markets' next move: Quick correction or quicksand? - August 9, 2011 - At the core of the Dow Jones industrial average's plunge of more than 634 points Monday is something worse than the mini-ding to the nation's credit rating that Standard & Poor's lobbed last week.
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Mary Ellen Podmolik
State ramps up mortgage fraud investigations - August 5, 2011 - Reports of potential mortgage loan fraud are on the upswing, and Illinois certainly is contributing its share to the troubling statistics.
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Phil Rosenthal
S&P downgrade hurts - August 7, 2011 - "It's like you know your kid is not doing well in school because he doesn't seem to be studying and he doesn't seem to know math, and then the teacher tells you he got an F," economist Matthew Mitchell said of Standard & Poor's historic downgrade of U.S. debt. "That's a signal, but you kind of...
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Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law
Illinois Supreme Court dodges 6th Amendment issue - August 5, 2011 - The Illinois Supreme Court last year decided to review a case that asks a question that touches every criminal prosecution: When does a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an attorney begin?
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Jon Yates' "What's Your Problem?"
Problem Solver: Amex takes its time making name change - August 7, 2011 - It took Brigette Whitehead just 10 minutes to get a driver's license with her new name after she was married May 28.
Robert Pagliarini: Your Other 8 Hours
How healthy are you? - August 8, 2011 - I wrote recently about how you can start closing the gap between the life you are living and your best life ... but I received some reader complaints. Desire to live their Miracle Question life? Check. Ideas and solutions to start closing the gap? Check. Energy to get their plan into action? Not...
Joyce Lain Kennedy
Demo assignment: Tryout or ripoff? - August 7, 2011 - Q. As a finalist for a web designer job, the employer suggested I do a redesign for his website so that he could judge my work. He said I was one of three finalists.
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Mary Umberger
Rental demand, prices are heating up - August 5, 2011 - I recently heard a personal finance pundit proclaim that renting is the new owning.
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Bob Weber
Pricey shift to compressed natural gas - August 6, 2011 - Q: Why doesn't Ford or GM allow for factory-installed CNG (compressed natural gas) systems on their assembly lines? The option would be costly but offset by federal tax credits which would lesson the economic blow and alleviate our dependence on foreign oil. I'd buy an F-150 or Silverado...
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