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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....

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Things have not been quiet in Washington D.C. as the clash between the House and Senate is an old Hill standby, but the chambers’ divergent handling of the calendar...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: We’re sticking to GA news as much as possible here, but can’t deny the robust amount of new info coming down regarding this covid variant. “The delta variant of the...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Let’s hope that we don’t have to go back and resume the daily coronavirus updates. It is however getting to the point to talk about issues again rather than tuck...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Participation has been slow so far. We're asking all to please click on the link below for an important survey regarding the current state of business in a mid-year...