News & Announcements

Chamber Members: It’s Tuesday, April 14 and we’re now about a month into our stay at home period. We wanted to share some encouraging news from another member regarding their PPP experience. “If there’s anyone who hasn’t applied yet, I recommend a local bank.  We went...

Chamber Members: Here’s to hoping that we all have a good week as we continue to work through this pandemic. At least the sun was out today, and we have some good reports to pass along. Our plan is to keep these updates coming out regularly through the week and then...

Chamber Members: Apologies to start as this update is a little long considering an update did not go out yesterday. First, big thank you to Kevin Courtois from the US Chamber of Commerce and those that joined us on the webinar today reviewing the CARES Act – PPP...

Chamber Members: Today’s update will be a light one as we want to make sure that you’ve seen our earlier invite to join a webinar we’ll be holding this Thursday, April 9 at 10:00 am with Kevin Courtois of the US Chamber of Commerce. Here are the full details in case...

Chamber Members: As we move into full week #3 of the stay at home directive, we hope that you are your organization are remaining well and healthy. We have a few new updates to share today, including some issues with the first day of PPP lending that were addressed by...

Chamber Members: As we wrap up the second full week of our “stay at home” directive, we sincerely hope that you are all doing well both in health and in business. We’re here for you and hope that the information that we’ve been sharing is beneficial as you go about...

Chamber Members: We hope you’re enjoying another sunny day. It seems as if the information flow has slowed down considerably which is good so those in need can prepare documents for loan and grant applications. As a reminder, we have started a resource page on our...

Chamber Members: Happy April 1st to everyone! We have a few new documents and information to share today regarding the CARES Act funding which we’ll refer to as PPP (the Paycheck Protection Program) going forward and a new fund. The US Treasury Department has even...

Chamber Members: Good afternoon to everyone on this last day of March. As we move into the month of April, we hope that sooner rather than later we can return to business as (somewhat at least) usual. With that said, Governor Pritzker has now made the much-rumored...

Chamber Members: As we begin our second full week of Gov. Pritzker’s stay at home declaration, President Trump retreated yesterday from his desire to relax coronavirus guidelines by Easter. Instead, he has announced that all Americans must continue to avoid...