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Yearning for a brand-new red tricycle, Dempsey J. Travis decided at the tender age of 5 to become an entrepreneur.

He took a job handing out business cards for a South Side barber, canvassing the busy thoroughfare of Cottage Grove Avenue until he was struck by a Model T Ford and fractured his left leg. The barber had instructed him to stand in front of the shop, but Travis didn't stay put.

Over eight decades, that same daring ambition pushed Mr. Travis to overcome poverty, prejudice and poor schooling to become a self-made multimillionaire.

The only child of a stockyards laborer, Mr. Travis was an Horatio Alger lift-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps figure who wielded his influence as a liaison between the business community and the political sphere to fight for social justice...

A Chicago office space rental company filed suit Thursday against David Hernandez, the Downers Grove businessman facing charges that he scammed investors and Chicago sports radio personalities out of $11 million.

Amata, a Chicago-based office space provider, allege in the lawsuit that the businessman misled the company about the legal status of Nextstep Financial Services, one of the entities Hernandez allegedly used to collect money from investors he then used for personal expenses.

The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, says that Hernandez made "verbal and written representations" that NextStep Financial Services was an active business, when it had actually been "involuntarily dissolved" 4 1/2 years prior to his rental of Loop office space from Amata.

Hernandez signed three seperate agreements with Amata to rent office space, furniture and equipment for four different companies operated by the businessman. The suit alleges that Hernandez owes Amata more...

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Google received some unfortunate news today, with the U.S. Department of Justice formally announcing the investigation of the $125 million settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to pay authors a nominal fee for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web. The settlement has drawn its fair share of critics, including Jeff Bezos. But Google keeps on plugging away, making its book search better and better.

For instance, Google Books recently

So, how messed up are the souls residing in Arkham Asylum? Check out the latest developer diary from the chaps at Rocksteady Studios. Paul Dini also talks about the storyline for this upcoming Eidos/WB title. I played a bit of it at E3 and it’s pretty damn fun. Can’t wait for it to drop on August 25th.