To get into a restaurant in this six-unit chain based in Northbrook, Ill.

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During his sophomore year in high school, he reached out to Northbrook Baptist Church in Boiling Springs for help.

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Moran says the Northbrook, Ill. insurance company unfairly denied a claim she made after her house was burgled two years ago.

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Covering 35 million policyholders and 17 million households, the Northbrook, Ill.

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Outside the U.S., "very few countries use checks, " says Denise Ryan, director of global destination services at IOR Global Services, a corporate-services firm in Northbrook, Ill.

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Rajaram, founder of analytics company Mu Sigma, of Northbrook, Ill.

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While his chances for a full recovery are excellent, the same is hard to say about Underwriters Laboratories, the 110-year-old product-testing outfit in Northbrook, Ill. that Knoblauch joined as chief executive in early 2001.

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If you choose a closed-end fund trading at a discount to its net asset value, you might also get some capital appreciation, says Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners LLC, Northbrook, Ill.

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He is from suburban Northbrook, Ill.

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