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Viewing on a PDA? Click here.   To view this email in a web browser click here. CHICAGOBUSINESS — POWERED BY CRAIN'S — Daily Business Briefing CRAIN'S LISTS SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MULTIMEDIA COMMERCIAL PROPERTY SEARCH TOP HEADLINES Monday, November 9, 2009 · Video: Midway's momentum revives privatization talk · Rental rebound? Some see signs in latest deal · Kraft takes hostile bid for Cadbury to its shareholders · Local quarterly home sales up for first time since late 2005 · Downtown condos: Sales dismal, but development winds down · McDonald's U.S. sales dip but rise 3.3% globally · Insurer drops 'a-ha' lawsuit against Oprah · Warren Beatty gets OK to sue TribCo over Dick Tracy · Foreclosure suit hits site of baseball school · CME retains Nymex's Newsome at $1M · United trims price to upgrade seats · In brief: Michigan Avenue move | Grubb CEO | Retail 'less worse'  CRAIN'S BLOGS · 'Newspaper guys' hit it big on WSCR: Biz of Sports · 5 ways to hit the reset button on your biz; time for a job-creation tax credit? and more: Enterprise City · Good news, bad news for Todd Stroger: Greg Hinz · Polsky brothers drawn by film drama; Astor Street booms with youthful energy — and construction: Taking Names   Final Markets Dow Jones 10,226.94 +203.52 +2.03% NASDAQ 2,154.06 +41.62 +1.97% Crain's Index 82.85 +1.610 +1.982% » View Other Top Headlines ADVERTISEMENT Celebrate This Holiday Season with Christmas Seals® Support the American Lung Association's Christmas Seals® and continue the fight against lung cancer, childhood asthma, secondhand smoke, air pollution and influenza. Visit ChristmasSeals.org OTHER HEADLINES · Dow hits new high for 2009 MarketWatch · Daley defends suburbanites' rights to city concert seats Chicago Sun-Times · George Lucas owns Droid (the name, not the phone) Geeksugar Crain's Chicago Business | 360 N. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60601 ADVERTISEMENT TODAY'S FEATURES Chicago Business Today — Nov. 9 Midway Airport's passenger traffic jumped in September for the first time in more than a year while O'Hare is still suffering. The question is: Will the comeback revive a privatization plan? Read More · Social Whirl: Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce · Recession is the mother of reinvention · · Enterprise City — a small-business blog SIGN UP FOR CUSTOM ALERTS Industries Companies   LISTEN LIVE: Traffic, weather and news from our news partner WBBM-AM.