Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:04:34 GMT
NHI completes $28.25 million purchase/leaseback transaction with Bickford Senior Living and its affiliates (News-Medical-Net)
National Health Investors, Inc. announced today it has closed a $28.25 million purchase/leaseback transaction with Bickford Senior Living and its affiliates involving four assisted living facilities in Michigan and one in Illinois. The assisted living communities are two to three years old totaling 216 units and attract 100% private payment for services.
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:00 GMT
NHI Announces $28.25 Million Purchase/Leaseback Transaction of Five Assisted Living Facilities with Bickford Senior ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.----National Health Investors, Inc. announced today it has closed a $28.25 million purchase/leaseback transaction with Bickford Senior Living and its affiliates involving four assisted living facilities in Michigan and one in Illinois.
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:37:35 GMT
Hughes throws hat into ring as GOP candidate for U.S. Senate seat (Effingham Daily News)
U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Hughes said Illinois Republicans have a clear choice in the GOP primary next Feb. 2.
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:18:51 GMT
Gulfport ranked one of best places to raise your kids (WLOX-TV Biloxi)
NEW YORK, NY - BusinessWeek released its fourth annual ranking of the “Best Places to Raise Your Kids.” Tinley Park, Illinois was named the nation’s best town to raise kids.
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:33 GMT
America's Best Place to Raise Your Kids (BusinessWeek)
See which town ranked highest in BusinessWeek's fourth annual survey of the Best Places to Raise Your Kids. Hint: It's in Illinois
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:14:25 GMT
History buffs, invest in 'Urbana' (The Champaign News-Gazette)
Area residents with an interest in and a love for local history can add another book to their must-read list: "Images of America: Urbana," prepared by Ilona Matkovszki and Dennis Roberts. The photograph-rich paperback book is exclusively about Urbana (even the images of the University of Illinois campus are limited almost entirely to the east side of Wright Street) but even so, many of the ...
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:12:44 GMT
A decade later, jury's still out on UI Research Park (The Champaign News-Gazette)
As the University of Illinois prepares to expand its 10-year-old research park onto university land east of First Street, The News-Gazette has spent several months examining how the park has fared in its first decade. N-G reporters Julie Wurth and Christine des Garennes sought to answer basic questions – just who works in the research park? – as well as broader ones. Has the park fulfilled its ...
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:10:32 GMT
Expert's straight talk on taxes unpopular but accurate (The Champaign News-Gazette)
Listening to a presentation from Ralph Martire, the executive director of the Chicago-based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, is almost painful. It's not that Martire is a poor speaker. He's actually entertaining, a policy wonk with a penchant for shtick. But his message about Illinois' worsening financial outlook is so ugly and depressing. Such as:
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:12:14 GMT
Project's employment numbers not as big as projected (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – Was it all "pie in the sky?" When the University of Illinois Research Park was proposed a decade ago, supporters talked of the park's potential to have 5,000 employees within a decade, or even five years.
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:12:24 GMT
Research Park growing, but UI tenants help fill the space (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – At the University of Illinois Research Park, State Farm Insurance runs a consumer research center, Caterpillar operates a simulation center and Archer Daniels Midland has a mathematical modeling center. Over the years, park tenants have come to include large companies with satellite research operations or local startup companies like R Systems, which built a supercomputer in the park.
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:15:11 GMT
Dems at risk of losing Obama's old Senate seat (Chicago Sun-Times)
WASHINGTON -- About a year ago, thousands jammed Grant Park in Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama 's election to the White House , a communal civic defining moment. But those giddy days are long gone as Democrats in Illinois face the potential of losing the Senate seat President Obama once held next November.The Illinois primary is Feb. 2, and the Democrat and Republican races are ripening, with ...
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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:52:33 GMT
Historical Hindsights: From Green City Colony to Fraud Colony (Greeley Tribune)
Historical Hindsights: From Green City Colony to Fraud Colony By Nancy Lynch For The Tribune Late in 1870, gregarious Denver real estate promoter David S. Green inspired settlers to leave Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to colonize along the South Platte River southeast of Greeley. The advertising declared steamships on the South Platte would transport colonists to the riverfront ...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:28:00 GMT
At-Risk Homeowners Urged to Attend 'Fix My Mortgage' - Largest Central Illinois, Free Foreclosure-Prevention Event, in ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Central Illinois homeowners at risk of foreclosure will receive free, on-site services and access to President Obama's loan modification program Saturday, November 21st, at PARC, 1913 W.
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:11 GMT
Inmate sues circuit clerk office (Mt. Vernon Register-News)
MT. VERNON — An inmate of Illinois River Correctional Center has filed a federal lawsuit against unknown assistant circuit clerks in Jefferson and Champaign counties as well as former State’s Attorney Gary Duncan and unknown assistants with the Secretary of State’s office.
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:38:12 GMT
Program aims to provide gifts (Mt. Vernon Register-News)
MT. VERNON — Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois is once again sponsoring its Secret Santa program, which will help provide Christmas gifts for about 140 area foster children.
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