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Why moviegoing isn't dead yet, despite rumors to the contrary

CHICAGO - "Toy Story 4" opens this weekend. The owners of the nation's roughly 4,100 movie theater screens are hoping its arrival will mean big business. The previous "Toy Story" made a little over $1 billion in revenue. So. That kind of big.

Next week, Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate Patrick Corcoran will leave Studio City, Calif., where he lives, and return to his hometown for a lunch meeting convened by the Wedbush Securities Inc. The mission, in

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