News & Announcements

Chamber Members: In case you missed the update from yesterday, Governor Pritzker made a big announcement for $900 million worth of grants spread over five programs. Today’s update is going to focus on two of those programs and we will work to get more info out as it...

Chamber Members: We hope that everyone and your organizations are doing well.  It has been quite an interesting three months during this pandemic. As we move towards phase 4, please let us know what topics and issues are of interest to you and how we can best be of...

Chamber Members: We are now ten days away from advancing into Illinois Phase 4. Although preliminary information was sent along with the phase announcements months ago, we’re hearing that we may see updated direction for this next phase by the end of this week. That...

Chamber Members: Welcome to the week of June 15. Today we have a list of news covering one of our most talked about topics. Additionally, more updates are below on signed bills and covid related reports. We hope you have a great week. Additional Small Business Aid...

Chamber Members: Hopefully, everyone is looking forward to the weekend. We’re about halfway through phase 3 with the next step coming up on June 26 at the earliest. We are watching to see if any changes are potentially announced a little early and will report out...

Chamber Members: Today is Thursday so that means unemployment report day on the national level. We also officially have a budget in Illinois for the next year as Governor Pritzker has signed the bill to make it official. See below for more news on PPP, Main Street...

Chamber Members: Thanks to those that joined us today for our COVID Town Hall Virtual Conference. If you missed it, the video recording is posted on our Coronavirus resource page along with all of our other video recordings, daily updates, and archived documents. Here...

Chamber Members: Today is going to be quick and light as far as the daily update goes. We are gearing up for our Town Hall Virtual Conference tomorrow at 1:00 pm to discuss the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and moving forward into phase four. Please join us for...

Chamber Members: Today is Monday, June 8 which means at the end of today our region will have completed day 11 of the 28-day period of Phase 3.  So, there are 17 days to go before the opening of Phase 4 as long as all the goals are met and continue on the same path....

Chamber Members: What a beautiful day to wrap up the week! We hope you are all looking forward to the weekend and the month ahead. We will be looking ahead as well as we present our next Virtual Conference next Wednesday, June 10 at 1 PM. It will be a town hall...