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...routes taken by traveling fish--and the bottom-bumping Spoonplug lure to facilitate it; in Taylorsville, N.C. Although he patented the lure in 1946, his Spoonplug business did not take off until 1957, when he caught hundreds of bass at a demonstration at supposedly "fished-out" Lake Marie, near Chicago...
ROBERTO A. CORNELIO, COO ILLINOIS HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Chicago...
...decisions that returned powers to the states that Congress had tried to vest in Washington. That quiet overhaul of authority earned Rehnquist a place as "one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
Miller is far from alone. Baby boomers who for one reason or another retire early are increasingly starting reverse-gender businesses. The phenomenon is growing at a rate of about 20% a year, estimates John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based international outplacement firm. The boomers, often disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel...
...community meeting on the South Side in May, according to the Tribune, Wal-Mart presented Eugene Morris, who runs an advertising firm in Chicago, to offer an endorsement. Morris praised Wal-Mart, noting that the company had brought him $20 million in business. Alton Murphy, a black district manager for Wal-Mart, assured the audience that most of the jobs would be local. "You won't go in and pay your hard-earned money to someone who doesn't look like you," Murphy told the crowd...