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NATION & WORLD
United merger likely
to give Chicago a lift
The big
picture:
No.1 Passenger traffic ranking 87,500 Full-time employees 370 Destinations served
Duane Jackson at his Times
Square sales stand Sunday,
a day after he helped alert
police to an SUV that held a
bomb. SOMEONE/AP PHOTO
N.Y. bomb
scare sets
off police
manhunt
FBI agents and New York
police were searching
Sunday for a man seen on
surveillance video walking
from an SUV before it filled
with smoke and “pops”
rang out. Police said Sat-
urday’s bomb could have
hurled shrapnel through
busy Times Square. PAGE 10
NATION & WORLD
The expected merger of Continental and United airlines will create a new United that will be based in Chicago. SomeOne Here/NEWS PHOTO
Obama promises
aid on oil spill
President Barack Obama
visited New Orleans on
Sunday promising to “do,
everything in our power”
to mitigate an environ-
mental disaster as an oil
slick creeping toward
shore tripled in size. PAGE 10
Coming to a city near you
Continental’s routes in the South should complement United’s coverage in the western U.S., while unique
major hubs would help the companies largely avoid monopoly concerns.
DOMESTIC
ROUTES*
Continental
United
Overlap
Continental deal
to create world’s
largest airline
By [Name Here]
NEWSFIX REPORTER
GETTING AROUND
CTA again seeks
faster buses
The CTA tries again to get a
$150 million federal grant
to buy buses and build
bus-only lanes around the
area to speed travel. See
planned routes on PAGE 6
United’s
U.S. hubs
I Chicago
I Denver
I Los Angeles
I San Francisco
I Washington, D.C.
*Includes Continental
Connection, Continental
Express, United Express and
United code share partners
Continental’s
U.S. hubs
I Cleveland
I Houston
I Newark, N.J.
INTERNATIONAL
ROUTES*
WEATHER
8 A.M.
Continental
United
Overlap
56
1 P.M.
67
4 P.M.
70
See Weatherman’s forecast
on the back of Live! SECTION 3
The merger would allow
United to combine its strong
presence outside of North
America with Continental’s routes
in Latin America and the Pacific.
Continental’s hubs in Newark, N.J.
and Houston would also provide
United with more route options for
passengers traveling abroad.
SOURCES: Continental Airlines, United Airlines
*Includes Continental Connection, Continental Express,
United Express and United code share partners
With a formal announcement
expected Monday that United and
Continental airlines will merge
and call Chicago home, the city of
big shoulders gains important
new bragging rights: home of the
world’s largest airline.
The deal, which was approved
by the airlines’ boards Sunday,
represents a significant boost to
Chicago’s civic pride — and po-
tentially to its economy observers,
said.
After watching scores of iconic
companies, from Amoco to Mont-
gomery Ward, disappear through
mergers and bankruptcies in re-
cent decades, Chicago has notch-
ed two big corporate victories this
year: Northfield-based Kraft
Food’s acquisition of British
candy giant Cadbury and the,
merged airline that will be named
United.
With each such victory Chicago,
is able to reinforce its identity as a
global corporate center, adding
prestige and more importantly,
jobs.
“This is not only a big win for
Chicago, but also for Illinois,”
said Samuel Skinner, a Chicago
attorney who was transportation
secretary under President George
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TRIBUNE WATCHDOG
Mortgage ‘rescuer’ Eliseo Carrillo
used his heritage to gain clients.
Now some immigrants who lost
their homes are suing.
White-hat hero or
mortgage scammer?
By Someone Here
NEWSFIX REPORTER
The accusations that have piled
up against Eliseo Carrillo run
counter to the image the Chicago
entrepreneur cultivated as a
champion of Latino immigrants.
As the housing market weak-
ened in recent years, Carrillo’s
smiling face appeared on bill-
boards throughout the city’s Mex-
ican-American neighborhoods.
Spanish-language TV commer-
cials featuring Mexican music
and Carrillo wearing a stylish
cowboy hat promised that his real
estate companies — all using the
name “Protecta” — were friends
and guardians of immigrants in
need.
But after signing what they
believed were loan papers to save
their homes from foreclosure, at
least four of his struggling clients
have filed lawsuits alleging that
they were misled into surrender-
ing the deeds to their homes in
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Amador Ocampo, center, is suing Eliseo Carrillo to reclaim ownership of his Little Village house. From left are
daughter Vanessa, son Amador Jr., wife Veronica and daughter Salma. [SOMEONE NAME]/PAPER PHOTO