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January 12, 2004
Midwest Edition
The Industry's Most Influential

The Strange Saga of Near North's Michael Segal

We are destroyed as of today," Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group's subsidiary, Near North Insurance Brokerage Inc. (NNIB), was Chicago's third-largest brokerage as recently as 2002 with annual revenues of $115 million but is ...

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Midwest Comp Market: Proceed With Caution

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