News & Announcements

Chamber Members: Today begins the second round of additional mitigations here in our region. Please support all of our members that are impacted by this mandate. In fact, support all of your fellow members through these times as everyone needs all the support...

Chamber Members: Today’s update will cover the usual Thursday job report and what has become an almost daily federal aid update. In addition, we’ll talk about holiday spending and home sales. Finally, you will find attached to this message two pdf’s.  One is a...

Chamber Members: It may seem extremely repetitive, but we can’t stress enough about the opportunities that exist to get grants funds either through the DCEO Business Interruption Grant and/or the Will County Small Business Assistance Grant. See below for details....

Chamber Members: Today, Governor Pritzker announced that our region will be going back to further mitigation efforts starting this Friday. This will be an identical situation as to what occurred back at the end of August and into September. You can read below for...

Chamber Members: Here we are 15 days away from the November 3rd elections. Did anyone expect the current state of events to be anywhere near what they are today? COVID cases are rising again and so are concerns to go along with such as the economy, employment, and...

Chamber Members: Happy Friday! A lot of news to share today before we break for the weekend. Good news comes from the County in that they’re opening round two of their grant program. We catch up today on the employment numbers released yesterday and unfortunately must...

Chamber Members: We’re here on Thursday so that usually means employment reports, but we’re going to hold that off for another day. Today we have some info on additional federal aid legislation, a new grant opportunity, and travel forecasts. In addition, an apology...

Chamber Members: We’re inching closer to the elections and the hope that once it is all over, things will begin to move in Washington DC. Federal aid, in some form is truly needed immediately as we move towards the end of the year on several fronts. We continue to...

Chamber Members: We hope you had a nice enjoyable (long) weekend. The daily update is back and while we’re at it, special thanks to Silver Cross Hospital for continuing to bring us the daily coronavirus update. See below for some info on the ongoing aid discussions, a...

Chamber Members: Happy Friday! Another week comes to and end and hopefully a good number of you will get to enjoy a day off on Monday for a much-needed break. President Trump is out with a new federal aid offer. Today we also want to look again at employer...