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...BMO Harris’s lineage dates to before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which levelled much of the city....
...He grew up in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, and attended Purdue University but failed to graduate because he refused to retake a French class he had failed....
...Uber will spend at least $2bn over the next decade to expand its freight business, as it announced the unit’s new headquarters in Chicago, Illinois....
...As somebody who has been in both the Oval Office, the halls of Congress and on the fifth floor of [Chicago] City Hall, I think I have a unique insight into that....
...Its flagship store on Madison Avenue opened in 1993 and became a New York institution, featuring in episodes of Sex and the City....
...Many are located in Chicago, having grown out of the trading groups that once screamed and stamped in the pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange....
...The case is a key test of how antitrust rules can be applied to online marketplaces operated by tech companies including eBay, Amazon’s Marketplace division, secondary ticketing site StubHub and Google Play...
...In December, it teamed up with Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, on its “Everyone Can Code” programme, bringing Swift to the curriculum in public schools and city colleges....
...Johnny Sandelson: Lords below To Lords for the England v Pakistan test where City Insider happened upon some alarming news: the head of South Australia’s trade and investment office in London, Bill Muirhead...
...But when Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincinnati revealed its $4.7bn swoop for Chicago’s MB Financial on Monday morning, shares in other Chicago-area banks began to move, too....
...But as a result of this and “challenging market conditions”, Caterpillar said it has abandoned plans to build a new headquarters complex in Peoria, the central Illinois town where it is currently based....
...Data from the Great Cities Institute, based in the University of Illinois at Chicago, shows that in 2014 40 per cent of African-Americans aged between 20 and 24 in Chicago were neither employed nor in education...
...CME says 70 per cent of its clearing brokers are located in Illinois....
...It’s not just Chicago, but many cities, where there is divisiveness and stark differences of opinion, whether religious or political....
...Chicago draws from its three main universities — Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago — as well as most Midwestern schools, including top-tier engineering programmes...
...Chicago, America’s second city, needs little introduction....
...accounts for more than about 15 per cent of city GDP — is a leading driver....
...“[The tower] is a gem of architectural and structural accomplishment and a constant reminder of the important role that Tribune has played in the development of the city itself”, said Peter Liguori, Tribune...
...The group said it had made nearly $2.9bn of new deals in the second three months of the year, on top of the $4bn it deployed in the first quarter, reports Mary Childs in Chicago....
...By contrast, Uptake’s 500-plus staff work in a contemporary open-plan office located in a historic downtown Chicago building, which 100 years ago housed one of the city’s original start-ups — the Montgomery...
...Nymex’s owner, CME Group of Chicago, says it will close down its New York commodities trading floor, the last of its kind in a city once full of them, after all but 0.3 per cent of its energy and metals...
...After the New York City Employees’ Retirement System decided to cash all its investments in hedge funds, Letitia James, the city’s public advocate, delivered a message to the industry straight out of Occupy...
...lot), Detroit (whose Renaissance Center was intended to reinvigorate the downtown of a struggling city) and Chicago, with its John Hancock Center ranking briefly as the world’s tallest until overtaken by...
...Similar schemes will be launched in Chicago and expanded in New York. GM also has peer-to-peer car-sharing schemes in Frankfurt and Berlin....
...Can Goldman Sachs establish its version of bitcoin? What will Max make of Mark’s letter? Will George Lucas build his narrative arts museum in Chicago? Can source code be poetry?...
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