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The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, commonly known as MPEA or McPier, [1] [2] is a corporation that owns Navy Pier and McCormick Place in Chicago.It also manages the city's collection of taxes for vehicles picking up passengers (including limousines, buses, airport shuttles, taxicabs and Uber/Lyft) for O'Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport.
Life Technologies Corporation was a biotech company founded in November 2008 through a US $6.7 billion merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc. The joint sales of the combined companies were about $3.5 billion; they had about 9,500 employees and owned more than 3,600 licenses and patents.
Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors completed assessments in Cook County. [1] The Board of Assessors had been created after a law passed by the Illinois General Assembly on February 25, 1898 created a Board of Assessors in counties with 125,000 or more inhabitants. [1]
The Center for Economic Progress offers free tax help in Chicago neighborhoods. The Center for Economic Progress (CEP) is a non-profit organization based in Chicago that offers free tax preparation and financial services to low-income families. [1] Since its founding in 1990 (35 years ago) (), CEP has helped families obtain $400 million in refunds.
The Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal (IITA) is an independent State of Illinois agency that creates a forum of original jurisdiction for the initial appeal of back-tax determinations made by the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR), the chief tax-collecting agency of Illinois.
The Civic Federation is a Chicago-based non-partisan research organization focused on governments in the Chicago area and the state of Illinois. The Civic Federation's mission is to help local and state governments reduce their costs and improve public services by "Promoting opportunities to reform local tax structures; guarding against wasteful expenditure of public funds; and serving as a ...
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0455-9. OCLC 17210353. Miller, Donald L. (1997). City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster. pp. 282– 284, 292. ISBN 978-0-684-83138-1
On May 8, 2006, Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific announced that they would merge in a tax-free, stock-for-stock exchange; the merged company was named Thermo Fisher Scientific, and had about 30,000 employees, and reported US$9 billion in combined revenue. [14] On November 9, 2006, the companies announced that the merger had been completed ...