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Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: An agreement has been made, so what is next? Just two days of frantic House action felt like a full week, but it is recess once again. Let’s look at what is coming...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Argonne National Laboratory is celebrating with their 75th Anniversary Small Business Fair this Wednesday, the 25th. They’ve asked us to share with our membership to...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: The application for the $250 million State of Illinois Back to Business (B2B) Grant Program is now open! B2B offers small businesses access to funds that can help...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: The application for the $250 million State of Illinois Back to Business (B2B) Grant Program is now open! B2B offers small businesses access to funds that can help...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Census numbers are out and Speaker Pelosi is juggling how and when votes are going to play out on infrastructure and the budget as the debt ceiling looms. Eviction...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Friday the 13th edition here today for you brings back some Coronavirus news as it is unavoidable (once again, unfortunately). A number of people have reached out to...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: This past spring the Joliet Chamber joined the Chambers All In for Economic Recovery coalition. The coalition is designed to address your concerns as a business...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: This past spring the Joliet Chamber joined the Chambers All In for Economic Recovery coalition. The coalition is designed to address your concerns as a business...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Governor Pritzker delivered a speech yesterday with three new key steps to keeping the delta variant cases from exploding here in Illinois. See below for full recap....