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After the attack.(One Year Later; businesses beset by problems a year after the World Trade Center attack)
Crain's Chicago Business, September, 2002 by Johnsson, Julie
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON and SARAH A. KLEIN The Sept. 11 attacks and the months of business paralysis that followed were a brutal, abrupt end to a long run of prosperity. The specter of thousands of people dying in office buildings as they began a normal workday was deeply unnerving, all the more so to executives who lost colleagues in the attacks.
One year later, corporate Chicago proved resilient to the panic, chaos and personal isolation that had been predicted to follow. Rather, it was the hangover from the prosperous but decadent '90s-accounting scandals, revelations of corporate looting, the stock market crash and economic downturn-that became a far greater challenge. ``We're living with depressed corporate profits and nervousness on the part of...
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