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CLOSING BELL
DJIA 12,980.30 +28.23 | NSDQ 2,988.97 +22.08 | S&P 1,374.09 +8.41
Nothing like an improved labor picture and healthier retail sales to stop a stock slide: MORE>>
TOP BUSINESS NEWS
 Initial jobless claims hit four-year low: MORE>>
• Things getting better in Illinois too: MORE>>
Car sales accelerate to 14.9 million annual rate in February: MORE>>
Blue Island hospital sold again: MORE>>
Groupon's Lefkofsky turns attention to ad-tech acquisition: MORE>>
Bank of America is back with those pesky checking fees: MORE>>
Distressed home sales rise in Chicago area: MORE>>
• And help's on the way to facilitate more: MORE>>
• Not to mention mortgage rates (yahoo.com): MORE>>
Zynga's ready to stake out its own turf: MORE>>
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TALKING BUSINESS
"Harvesting what someone said a year or more ago is game-changing," Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego said on reports that Twitter has hired two firms to package user data for sale: MORE>>
IN OTHER NEWS
Southern Illinoisans return home to find it's gone: MORE>>
• Harrisburg tornado hit "like a bomb": MORE>>
Emanuel brings out big guns in announcing infrastructure plan: MORE>>
Cook County lights up tax on cigars: MORE>>
• Game's back on over hospital property tax exemptions: MORE>>
• Cook County medical examiner should be getting a little nervous right about now: MORE>>
Santorum stays on Romney's heels in Wyoming: MORE>>
• Still it may be all over but the shouting by the time the race gets here: MORE>>
Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43: MORE>>
Two more U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan: MORE>>
• U.N. calls for punishment in Quran burning that started it all: MORE>>
Signs of nuclear thawing between the U.S. and North Korea: MORE>>
Wonder how the passengers of the Costa Allegra are liking the Seychelles: MORE>>
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IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
If you think an additional one-game winner-take-all playoff game is looney, wait until you see what Major League Baseball has in store for 2013. Steve Rosenbloom spells it out in Rosenblog: MORE>>
SPORTS FIX
You won't be seeing Jonathan Toews on the road with the Hawks: MORE>>
• Or John Danks' hair, home or away, for that matter: MORE>>
Obama is bullish on the Bulls: MORE>>
• Orlando Woolridge charged in theft: MORE>>
Another indication that the Packers may not be all that unpopular here: MORE>>
LATEST SPORTS NEWS >>
OFF THE CLOCK
 Justin Bieber gets a car for his 18th birthday -- and oh, what a car: MORE>>
Funny, "The Lorax" looks orange to us: MORE>>
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Traffic | See current information on area highways, buses, trains and planes on our commuting page: MORE>>
 Weather | Dreary highs in the 40s, lows in the 30s. See our weather page with radar and Tom Skilling's seven-day forecast: MORE>>
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