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For The Record, week ended 08.10.07.

Publication: Crain's Chicago Business
Publication Date: 13-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: For The Record, week ended 08.10.07.(FTR)(Northern Illinois Gas Co. employees charged for financial fraud)(Thomas Fisher)(Kathleen Halloran)(George Behrens)(McDonald's Corp. sells chicken chain to Sun Capital Partners Inc.)(Federal Signal Corp. acquired PIPS Technology)

Article Excerpt
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's acquisition of Highland Park Hospital in 2000 was "anti-competitive'' and led to higher consumer costs that were not offset by greater efficiencies, according to the FTC. Still, it overruled a 2005 decision ordering the sale of the hospital but required Evanston Northwestern to establish "separate and independent'' teams that will allow health insurers to negotiate prices separately with each of the hospitals, "thus reinjecting competition'' between them, the FTC said.

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