For years the Oak Brook, Illinois company made miniature car models for adults but added toys for children and infants starting in 1999.

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In a symbolic gesture, new Chief Jim Cantalupo exiled from the Oak Brook, Illinois home office the headquarters staff overseeing non-Mac operations, resettling them down the road.

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They were further irked by the operations bosses in Oak Brook, Illinois, who had issued an 80-page directive, called "Franchise 2000, " that tied a lot of new and onerous regulations to mandatory store reviews.

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At one of Cantalupo's first meetings at the home office in Oak Brook, Illinois, he set priorities straight: The focus would be on fixing McDonald's first and worrying second about the pizza, chicken and Mexican food chains bought by Greenberg to fuel growth (see box, p. 26).

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High water could be responsible for two more, both in Illinois, where a decomposed body was found Thursday in an Oak Brook creek and a body was found Saturday in the Mississippi River at Cora.

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