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Chicago and Illinois Taxes
This downloadable spreadsheet provides current information on tax rates in Chicago and Illinois. Data includes corporate income tax, personal income tax, and sales tax. Chicago IL Taxes revised Oct 2015
Read MoreMayor Emanuel Announces ThinkChicago: Chicago Ideas Week 2015
Fifth annual ThinkChicago: Chicago Ideas Week will introduce 150 of the Midwest’s top technology and computer science students to the city’s fast-growing technology industry over 3 days, and bring them…
Read MoreCrain’s Chicago: Inside the private group that guides Chicago’s economic development policy
By Lynne Marek, Crain’s Chicago Business
Read MoreEntrepreneur: Chicago – The new B2B boomtown
By Hank Ostholthoff, Contributor, Entrepreneur, CEO Mabbly
Read MoreChicago Sun-Times: Manufacturing Day gives CPS students hands-on experience
By Patrick Judge, Chicago Sun-Times
Read MoreCrain’s Chicago: ConAgra move shows how corporations can see Chicago through rose-colored glasses
By Brigid Sweeney, Crain’s Chicago Business
Read MoreIndex Shows Midwest Economic Growth Slowed in August
This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released August 2015 figures for its Midwest Economy Index (MEI). The MEI is a weighted average of 129 indicators designed to measure non-farm…
Read MoreChicago Metro Unemployment Decreases to 5.6% in August 2015
This morning, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released preliminary August 2015 unemployment rates for all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). The unemployment rate measures the percentage of the local…
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