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Chicago Joins Bidding War for New Amazon Headquarters

Clip: 09/14/2017 | 9m 9s  | Video has closed captioning.

Amazon announced last week that it will build a second headquarters in North America. Mayor Rahm Emanuel quickly made clear Chicago is interested. Phil Ponce speaks with John Pletz of Crain’s Chicago Business and Seth Green from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University.

Aired: 09/14/17

Rating: NR

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