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Chicago Business News

Chicago Business News: 2/29

Yasmin Rammohan | February 29, 2012, 10:00 am

A coal-free Chicago future. After more than a decade of legal battles, the city's two remaining coal power plants will be closed. Kris Kridel of WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9FM has that story, and more top business headlines.

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