Press Releases
Chicago-based Aon Corporation announced this week that it will merge its consulting business with Hewitt Associates, Inc., expanding the region’s role as an international center for risk management and human capital consulting.
As recent graduates throughout the country calculate their next steps, World Business Chicago engaged local university partners and compiled data to determine the top reasons college graduates choose Chicago.
World Business Chicago ranks among the nation’s top economic development groups for the fifth consecutive year in the May issue of Site Selection magazine.
Unemployed Chicagoans to be Trained for Today’s Tech-Driven Workforce
CCT, an innovative workforce training program, aimed at putting displaced white-collar Chicagoans back to work in technology-focused jobs, held its first Advisory Board meeting at the Microsoft Training Center in Chicago. Mayor Richard M. Daley welcomed the distinguished roster of private sector Advisors for the program.
Corporate relocations and expansions in the Chicago metro area have helped the city’s economy, despite the downturn in 2009. World Business Chicago identified 11.6 million square feet of economic development activity representing more than $1.5 billion in investments in the metro area last year. From technology start-ups, to multinational corporations, the year-in-review demonstrates that numerous Chicago businesses continued to thrive in 2009.
Chicago is the sole U.S. city to achieve the status of top international city for foreign investment in 2008, in a study released this week at the International Economic Development Conference in Reno, Nevada.
World Business Chicago’s co-chair, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, appointed five new board members to its prominent Board of Directors at the economic development organization’s quarterly Board meeting today at McCormick Place.
In one of Chicago’s largest corporate relocations, United Airlines announced today that it will move its operational center, including 2,800 jobs, downtown to the Willis Tower in 2010. The move demonstrates an emerging trend of corporations migrating into the city.
World Business Chicago is partnering with the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) to welcome international plastics executives and journalists to NPE2009, the International Plastics Showcase at McCormick Place, June 22-26. NPE will bring attendees from more than 100 countries to 1 million square feet of space...
