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Fifth Third Bancorp And MB Financial Merge In $4.7B Deal
Fifth Third Bancorp And MB Financial Merge In $4.7B Deal
May 21, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Fifth Third Bancorp and MB Financial announced news on Monday (May 21) that the two have inked a merger agreement in which MB Financial will...

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Groupon And Grubhub Kick Off Partnership In Chicago
Groupon And Grubhub Kick Off Partnership In Chicago
May 08, 2018  |  Delivery

Hungry consumers in Chicago now can take part in the latest expansion of online food delivery programs. Groupon announced news on Tuesday (May 8) that its...

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Paying City Hall, At The Kiosk And Beyond
Paying City Hall, At The Kiosk And Beyond
February 27, 2018  |  Payment Methods

You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month that Chicago’s finance...

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Reinventing Main Street, One Scoop Of Cookie Dough At A Time
Reinventing Main Street, One Scoop Of Cookie Dough At A Time
February 14, 2018  |  Retail

Chocolate chips cookies are possibly the world’s most perfect dessert, particularly when eaten pulled fresh from an oven.   Sure, cake has its fans, ice...

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Chicago Developer Tries To Lure Amazon With Its Own Stadium
Chicago Developer Tries To Lure Amazon With Its Own Stadium
October 30, 2017  |  Amazon

Sterling Bay, a Chicago developer, is throwing in a sports and concert stadium into its proposal for Amazon’s second U.S. headquarters, in an effort to...

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Half Of Chicagoans To Shop Online This Holiday
Half Of Chicagoans To Shop Online This Holiday
October 20, 2017  |  Retail

More than 50 percent of Chicagoans will do the majority of their holiday shopping online this year, according to a survey from Accenture. The proportion of...

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Washington, D.C., Ups Its Taxi Game With Square
Washington, D.C., Ups Its Taxi Game With Square
July 04, 2017  |  What's Hot

For the last few years, ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft have taken off and completely disrupted the taxi industry. As we reported last month,...

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Oars + Alps Gets $1.3-Million Funding Boost
Oars + Alps Gets $1.3-Million Funding Boost
June 27, 2017  |  Retail

Women’s beauty products have a long and well-established history, but the men’s side of the equation hasn’t always told the same story. Outside of deodorant,...

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Cab Industry May Soon Be Extinct
Cab Industry May Soon Be Extinct
June 07, 2017  |  Ridesharing

The yellow cab industry may become extinct soon, according to Chicago cabbies. With Uber and Lyft soaring to new heights in the sharing economy, cab survival...

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