By Thomas Day for ChicagoInno
This region’s growing community of entrepreneurs, and our broad manufacturing base, make this city and this district ready to become for the new industrial revolution what Silicon Valley was for the information technology revolution.
The 7th Congressional district, a district composed of much of downtown Chicago, the Loop, the South Loop, Englewood, and the West Side neighborhoods and suburbs — and a district I seek to represent in Washington — has an unemployment rate that is regularly surveyed at three times the national average.
In ten years, we can be the economic engine of the Midwest, with a job for everyone who wants one.