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         <title><![CDATA[Valspar Takes 40,000 SF in O&#146;Hare Submarket]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO, IL-The lease bodes well in a struggling area where at year-end the vacancy rate reached 26%, when the average suburban vacancy rate was 24.9%.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Testa Produce To Build LEED Platinum Facility]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The produce distributor will build a 91,000-square-foot facility at 4555 S. Racine Ave. within the Stockyards Industrial Park.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Preferred Buys Village Green Center]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[DECATUR, IN- The 93,000-square-foot shopping center is anchored by a Scotts Grocery and was being foreclosed on by a life insurance company. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Construction Completes on 346-Key Senior Star]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[ROMEOVILLE, IL-The senior living community includes more than 400,000 square feet of space, including 77 apartments for those living with Alzheimer&#146;s disease.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.globest.com/news/1593_1593/chicago/183411-1.html?st=rss</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Deloitte Names O'Brien Head of US Real Estate]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO--Global international accounting and consulting firm Deloitte has shuffled up its executive ranks in a major way, appointing Robert T. O&#146;Brien as the new head of its US real estate practice and vice chairman. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chicago Retail Development Drops 79%]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-In 2009 the delivery of gross leasable area totaled 1.7 million square feet; a 53% decline from 2008, when GLA totaled 3.7 million square feet.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Skilled Nursing Facility Trades for $22M]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-Tryko Partners and ManagCare Inc. purchased the four-story, 313-bed facility with plans to increase occupancy.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[FDIC To Fill 150,705-SF Building]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[SCHAUMBURG, IL-The FDIC will occupy the entire building here in the Woodfield Corporate Center.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Diliberto Launches Auction, Advisory Firm]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The firm is auctioning the newly renovated 20,000-square-foot building at 2248 S. Michigan Ave.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.globest.com/news/1587_1587/chicago/183290-1.html?st=rss</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[One North Wacker Fills 100,000 SF]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-Law firm Barnes &amp; Thornburg has taken 83,000 square feet to expand its presence in Chicago.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[GGP Closes $155M Mortgage Loan]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-GGP has brought 180 GGP subsidiary debtors and 96 assets out of bankruptcy, with another 16 loans about to be restructured. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Developer Proposes $350M Condo Project]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The condo developer is asking the city to rezone a portion of Uptown and approve $40-million to $50-million tax-increment financing.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.globest.com/news/1584_1584/chicago/183219-1.html?st=rss</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Lease Brings Marshfield to 90% Occupancy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-Burlington Coat Factory's lease brings the 454,000-square-foot retail center to 90% occupied.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[GFX International Leases 85,000 SF]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[LIBERTYVILLE, IL-The manufacturing and distribution facility will consolidate two other GFX locations. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Global Recovery Fragile but Moving Forward]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-JLL's Global Market report finds office rental rates are likely to decline further but investors are actively seeking purchases. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Industrial Vacancy Hits 19-Year High]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-According to a new study the market's vacancy rate sits at 12.2% up from 10.3% in the fourth quarter 2008. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Target Eyes State Street]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The retailer is looking into locating in the former Carson Pirie Scott &amp; Co. facility at 1 S. State St.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[WEL Cos. Signs on for 150,000 SF]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[JOLIET, IL-The Wisconsin-based company has signed a long term lease and will relocate from its current Plainfield, IL location. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fifield Forms $600M Apt. Acquisition Fund]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The company will purchase more than 5,000 units before year-end and is targeting acquisitions between $20 million to $50 million.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cabrini-Green Project Gets Boost from City]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO-The Parkside at Old Town Square received $3.4 million of public subsidy early from the Daley administration. ]]></description>
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