Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Saybrook is a village in southeast McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 764 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bloomington–Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area. Known by locals as the "City of Shade and Water", its founders named it in honor of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.