Steve Jagler, for BizTimes Media

BizTimes will explore the forecasts for the year ahead in business at the 2014 Northern Trust Economic Trends Breakfast on Jan. 17.
We haven’t yet dug in to the research that will give us a glimpse of which way the winds will be blowing next year.

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