The fastest growing counties in the United States - Yahoo! Finance

 

Kendall County, Ill., a far-flung suburb of Chicago, grew nearly 100% in the last nine years, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau. The county went from a population of 54,563 on April 1, 2000, to an estimated 104,821 last July 1.

Land prices have come down in the bust to more like $12,000 an acre today.

The fastest growing counties in the United States - Yahoo! Finance

BP Agrees to Place About $20 Billion in Escrow for Spill Claims

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The New York Times
Wed, June 16, 2010 -- 11:58 AM ET
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BP Agrees to Place About $20 Billion in Escrow for Spill Claims

The White House and top executives of the energy giant BP have tentatively agreed that the oil company will pay about $20 billion over several years into an independently controlled fund to pay compensation to people and businesses harmed by the immense oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The fund would be overseen by Kenneth Feinberg, the prominent lawyer who ran the compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and is the government's special master for
executive pay under the TARP program. President Obama
demanded the creation of such a fund in his national address about the oil spill Tuesday evening, and met with company executives at the White House on Wednesday.