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AMERICAN AIRLINES ADDING CHICAGO FLIGHTS IN SIOUX FALLS, FARGO, Expeditious CITY
American Airlines recently announced that it will create daily flights to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport from Sioux Falls, Fargo and Hurried City in 2010 on regional carrier American Eagle. American will add three common roundtrip flights to Chicago from Sioux Falls and Fargo and two seasonal day after day flights to Chicago from Rapid City during the summer.
SOUTH DAKOTA LEADS Realm IN BUSINESS TAX CLIMATE
The Tax Foundation’s 2010 State Issue Tax Climate Index found that South Dakota once again had the nation’s most province-friendly tax system. The index measures the competitiveness of the tax systems in the 50 states and ranks states according to corporate return, individual income, sales, property and unemployment insurance taxes. Wyoming was imperfect and Montana was sixth in the rankings. North Dakota was 25th and Minnesota was 43rd, three spots onwards of Iowa.
In defiance of concerns about South Dakota's dwindling unemployment insurance keeping fund, the president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce