Career Education Corporation Completes Acquisition of Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago.Business Editors HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq:CECO) today announced it has completed its acquisition of the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (CHIC), located on Chicago's Near North side. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The school, which has approximately 700 students, will continue to operate under its current name. CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. announced on January 21, 2000 that it had entered into an agreement to purchase CHIC. Career Education Corporation also offers six other culinary arts programs: Scottsdale Culinary Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona; California School of Culinary Arts in South Pasadena, California South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 24,292. History South Pasadena was established on March 2, 1888. ; Le Cordon Bleu For the Schnitzel variant, see . Le Cordon Bleu (French for "blue ribbon") is an international group of hospitality management and cooking schools teaching French cuisine. Culinary Program at Brown Institute in Mendota Heights, Minnesota Mendota Heights is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 11,434 at the 2000 census. The St. Thomas Academy boys school is located here, as well as Henry Sibley High School. ; McIntosh College in Dover, New Hampshire Dover is a small city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, in the United States of America. The population was 26,884 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Strafford County. Dover is home to McIntosh College. ; International Culinary Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Western Culinary Institute
 This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. (Nasdaq:COOK), which operates a core campus in San Francisco and three additional campuses in San Francisco, Salinas, and San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . Completion of the California Culinary Academy acquisition is subject to a number of conditions. CEC also operates two other schools in Chicago: The Harrington Institute of Interior Design and the International Academy of Merchandising and Design. Career Education Corporation is one of the largest providers of private, for-profit, postsecondary education in North America. The Company currently operates 27 campuses in 15 states and two Canadian provinces. CEC schools enjoy long operating histories and offer a wide variety of bachelor's degree, associate degree and diploma programs in career-oriented disciplines within the Company's core curricula of information technology, visual communication and design technologies, business studies and culinary arts. The forward-looking statements contained in the release are based upon various assumptions, and certain risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated. Factors that could cause such differences include those matters disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Career Education Corporation assumes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements. |
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