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Home Depot Takes Heat for Meeting in Chicago.

By Tony Wilbert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 30--CHICAGO--Home Depot will hold its annual meeting here Friday, the first time in its history the gathering will take place outside metro Atlanta.

The new location is part of a strategy to take the meeting to areas where Home Depot has a major presence, the company said.

The official reason aside, some shareholders said Home Depot did it to avoid criticism for its poor performance in 2002, when the company's stock ranked as the worst performer on the Do

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