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WASHINGTON — Army criminal investigators are examining whether Combat Support Associates, a defense contractor that has earned more than $2 billion so far supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, overcharged the government. The company said it is ...

Illinois' casino gambling receipts are down by double digits percentage-wise -- a situation the industry blames, in part, on the state's smoking ban. Tom Swoik, executive director of the Illinois Casino Gaming Association, says that many smokers are ...

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Our yellowed 1989 news clippings spell out a torrid Davenport riverfront development debate little different than discussions in 2008. Should Davenport commit to a longer-term riverboat lease in the middle of its downtown riverfront? Jim Jumer was ...

Business Opportunity Presentations: Learn how to start a travel business and earn money with Your Travel Biz in Spanish; 7 p.m., (also Tuesday); Doral Chamber of Commerce, 8181 NW 36th St., Doral; free, advance registration required. 305-477-7600 or ...

His name linked Old World elegance with Peoria. James Jumer, whose contributions to Peoria included Jumer's Castle Lodge, the Boat Works and the Spirit of Peoria riverboat, died Tuesday at the age of 82. An Alzheimer's patient, Jumer suffered a heart ...

American Foods Group, Omaha, is beginning a multimillion-dollar modernization and expansion of its packing plant in Long Prairie, Minn. Four thousand square feet of building has been demolished to make room for a 15,000-square-foot addition. The ...

JIM Jumer, 82, vital statistic … dead Tuesday of a heart attack. D. James Jumer was not a mere statistic. He was a quiet dreamer who reminded so many of the psyche of Walt Disney. He was an “imagineer,” like Disney, with a dreamer’s touch ...

To a little kid, a trip to Jumer’s Castle Lodge may as well have been a journey to King Ludwig’s palace in faraway Bavaria. The hotel and restaurant complex nestled into Peoria’s Western Avenue hilltop was a magical place dense with German ...

If you want to cut down on car trips, start looking in your mailbox. An invitation will be sent to south suburbanites this month asking them to eschew their vehicles in favor of walking, biking and taking mass transit. The Chicagoland Bicycle ...