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...at the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois Chicago....
...When we’re talking about the end of Roe v Wade, the entirety of the South will be without legal abortion....
...What does $5m buy in Chicago? A stroll from Lincoln Park in Gold Coast, one of Chicago’s wealthiest neighbourhoods, there is a smart, five-bedroom town house on the market with Compass for $4.95m....
...Beyond the lay-offs in Michigan, US Steel cut jobs in Gary, Indiana, East Chicago, Illinois, and the Iron Range of Minnesota, blaming “challenging market conditions”....
...The company now expects full-year revenue growth of 3 per cent from an earlier forecast of between 4-5 per cent, reports Lindsay Whipp in Chicago....
...The short-range target is to set up 20 stores in Chicago and Miami, the Manchester and Brighton of the US....
...What US state has the largest state-supported debt per capita? A) Illinois B) California C) New Jersey D) Connecticut E) New York D) Connecticut 22....
...Someone who wanted to buy a modern 1-bedroom apartment in Queens, NY, would have to pay far more than someone who wanted to buy a 4-bedroom house in a nice area of Chicago, for example....
...Empire State Building, New York Window-washers at the 6,500-window Manhattan landmark have reported how, in winter, food and drink thrown out of windows of high-up floors often freezes on glass lower down...
...The Illinois-based company said that sales of all new equipment, including John Deere tractors, rose 4 per cent during the quarter....
...details of a deal to sell the South African lender’s London-based commodity trading business to its biggest shareholder....
...And if you’d never thought of Lima as a gastro-paradise, think on this: it now has the same number of eateries on the list as London....
...The AP declared Mr Obama the winner in Illinois (20)*, Connecticut (7), Maine (4), Washington DC (3), Delaware (3), Rhode Island (4), Maryland (10) and Massachusetts (11)....
...“In 2015, the United States would need to use every gallon of fats and oils in the production of biodiesel to meet the mandate, with tremendous pressures on vegetable oil and fats prices around the world...
...supplies after poor production in South America and a historic drought in the United States....
...Upcoming cruises on the Silver Explorer include Antarctica, Central and South America, the Northwest Passage, and the Russian far east....
...Under the settlement announced on Wednesday afternoon, BP will spend $400m on projects to cut air pollution from Whiting, which is less than 20 miles south of central Chicago....
...Bunge, a top global agricultural trading house, expects “massive planting” of corn and soyabeans in South America later this year. Wheat prices have also risen 50 per cent since mid-June....
...“Orange juice is the name of the game at the moment in soft commodities,” said Jack Scoville at Price Futures Group in Chicago....
...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10. IMD Top Ten in International Business 1. Thunderbird School of Global Management 2. University of South Carolina: Moore 3....
...Hindsight is 20/20, but to read about events as they unfolded and see the United State’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the build up of Hitler’s regime was just staggering....
...It does have some beautiful bits, from the Kremlin through to the masterworks of revolutionary modernism but the legacy of the communist police state hangs heavy....
...“Both companies may be big in the US, but the US only represents 4 per cent of the world’s population,” Mr Armstrong added, according to the Guardian....
...Mr Johnson told a people’s question time event on Tuesday night that the coalition government’s move last year to scrap any new runways in the south-east of England was hindering London’s long-term competitiveness...
...That time-honoured cry, ringing through New York’s Pennsylvania station, heralds the start of an epic 3,397-mile, three-night crossing of the United States....
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