Tribune staff report | Chicago-based U.S. Cellular Corp. said
its president and CEO, John “Jack” E. Rooney, will retire in 2010.
Executive recruiting firm Spencer Stuart is currently conducting a
search for Rooney’s replacement.

Rooney, 67, joined U.S.
Cellular as president and CEO in 2000. The company said in his 10 years
at the helm,  it has grown into the sixth-largest wireless provider in
the U.S., with more than six million customers, and service revenues
have more than doubled.