CME Group Inc. is seeking $15 million in city aid to help pay for a major renovation of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, which became the exchange’s headquarters after its 2007 buyout of the Board of Trade.The CME has promised to make 900 jobs over the next 10 years, in addition to the 1,800 current employees, in exchange for the tax-increment financing grant, according to Alderman Robert Fioretti (2nd), whose ward includes the building at 141 W.
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CME wants city subsidy for renovation of the Chicago Board of Trade Building
September 9th, 2009 
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No Comments »This Day in Wall Street History 1931: Empire State Building dedicated
May 2nd, 2009 Before You Invest On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicated New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turned on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York.The thought for the Empire State Building is said to have been born of a competition between Walter Chrysler of Chrysler Corp.
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