News & Announcements

Chamber Members: It’s job report day and the “skinny” proposal was voted on.  See the results of both below. Also, Governor Pritzker makes an announcement about Covid response jobs. Latest on the Unemployment Scene New weekly claims for unemployment benefits stayed...

Chamber Members: As a follow-up to our news yesterday that things are moving with concerns over the data and process being used by the state regarding Region 7 mitigation measures, we finally did receive an official response from IDPH. It is nothing really different...

Chamber Members: Hopefully, everyone was able to enjoy a long Labor Day weekend. This by no means should be a quiet week on the COVID front, both nationally and locally. First, expect a vote this week in the Senate on the “skinny” bill mentioned last week. Second,...

Chamber Members: Who’s ready for the long Labor Day weekend? Some good news today on job numbers, but not on covid cases. Interesting though that such as backlog existed since we don’t recall hearing about the possibility during all the reports of the record-breaking...

Chamber Members: Today we share once again the jobless claims over the past week. We look below at some other topics and updates. The main news is the announcement of an agreement to avert a government shutdown, but that means no coupling with coronavirus funding. We...

Chamber Members: Our region now has a partner in mitigation measures as the area east of St. Louis has matched our restrictions one week after the announcement for us here in Region 7 and after their two weeks attempt to reduce positivity below 6.5%. Also, some news...

Chamber Members: Can you believe that we are staring the month of September today? This means 29 days until a potential federal government shutdown and 63 days until the elections. We are now entering the 7th month touched by the COVID pandemic. Here is today’s update...

Chamber Members: Welcome to another week. Last week certainly was an interesting one considering it was noticeably quiet out in Washington DC, but definitely more action back home. Here is a recap from over the last few days and info about our next virtual conference....

Chamber Members: We have job numbers to report since it is Thursday, but more importantly today we are sharing a letter that has been sent to Governor Pritzker and additional elected officials regarding the Region 7 mitigations. The full letter is attached as well....

Chamber Members:   Today we’re going to keep it light and quick as we’re working through some of the backlash from yesterday’s announcement. So, most of the information below is a reminder of what is going on as far as new mitigation efforts that began today,...