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The Wealthiest Person in Each State24. Joseph Lewis: $3.9 billion Founder of Tavistock Group and owner of Tottenham Hotspur soccer team in England 25. Samuel Zell : $3.9 billion Founder of Equity Residential 26. Theodore Lerner: $3.9 billion Founder of real estate firm Lerner
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Book review: 'Deal from Hell' examines fall of Tribune Co.
corporate moguls" as a plural. Most of the book, though, is devoted to the few moguls who ran the Tribune Co. until selling to Sam Zell , often termed a "real-estate billionaire," earlier this century. The pre-Zell moguls are portrayed as complex human
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'The Deal from Hell,' book examines the decline of the Tribune Co.
corporate moguls" as a plural. Most of the book, though, is devoted to the few moguls who ran the Tribune Co. until selling to Sam Zell , often termed a "real-estate billionaire," earlier this century. The pre-Zell moguls are portrayed as complex human
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Tribune Co. will sell Cubs, Wrigley Field to Ricketts family
marquee baseball franchise and historic ballpark would be sold at the end of that season. But the process was slowed by CEO Sam Zell 's efforts to maximize sale profits, the collapse of the credit markets and Tribune's 2008 bankruptcy filing. The Ricketts
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Big winner? UAW stake in Chrysler comes without authority
in 2003. Employees of Tribune Co. also got majority ownership as part of the 2007 deal that made multibillionaire investor Sam Zell chairman and CEO. But they also shouldered a good deal of the risk — without control, or even board representation. The future
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UAW's Chrysler stake comes without authority
in 2003. Employees of Tribune Co. also got majority ownership as part of the 2007 deal that made multibillionaire investor Sam Zell chairman and CEO. But they also shouldered a good deal of the risk — without control, or even board representation. The future
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Ricketts chosen as Cubs' winning bidder: $900 million
for $20.5 million in June 1981. Tribune Co. put the team on the market on opening day 2007, when real estate mogul Sam Zell agreed to buy the corporation. Cubs chairman Crane Kenney said last week that the team hopes to have a new owner in place
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Blago Boycotts Impeachment Trial; Lawyer Boycotts Himaid. Federal prosecutors have alleged that Blagojevich attempted to use financial incentives to get the Tribune's owner, Sam Zell , to fire editorial staff that he found objectionable. Not only will Blagojevich not be at Monday's trial, but neither
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The New Billionaire Behind the New York Timesprivate equity firm Avista Capital Partners bought The Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million, while real estate magnate Sam Zell engineered a multi-billion-dollar takeover of the Tribune Co. Last month, the Tribune filed for bankruptcy. Earlier
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Prognosticator extraordinaire: Reader beats media pros
Philip Anschutz; e) The Minuteman Project; f) More than one; g) Someone else. Answer: A. A close call. By Dec. 1, Sam Zell hadn't completed his $8.2 billion deal to take Tribune txa , including the L.A. Times, private. 9) About 36.4
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Blago Deputy Resigns Amid Arrestseditorials the paper ran about him, and wanted to hold up a $100 million tax break for the Cubs until the Tribune Co.'s owner, Sam Zell , agreed to fire the editors responsible from the paper. The deputy governor endorsed the idea of playing hardball with Zell
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Corruption Hangover Follows Election Night High
A little more than a month ago, the world stared, transfixed and mostly starry-eyed at a park in Chicago where the city's most famous so n -- who had done as good as a local boy can do -- declared victory in the presidential election. Heady days followed for a city that if not for Barack Obama,
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PAPER CUTS: Did Chicago Tribune Owner Cut Deal to Fire His Editor?the governor attempted to use financial perks, including a lucrative "tax mitigation scheme," to convince Tribune owner Sam Zell to fire key editorial staff at the Chicago Tribune, including McCormick. Zell is not named in the complaint, which identifies
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Angry Billionaire Drops the F BombMedia mogul Sam Zell curses at one of his photographers during a staff meeting.
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Illinois Gov's "Pay to Play" Scandalsays that He had no indication of any pressure. But what He was trying to do was to shake down the owner of the Tribune's Sam Zell who won the special tax break for Wrigley Field. The would have saved the Tribune Co. which owns the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley
trying to do was to shake down the owner of the Tribune's Sam Zell who won the special tax break for Wrigley Field. The would have saved the Tribune Co. which owns the Chicago Cubs in
