Midwest Job Openings and Hiring Activity – September 2015

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released September 2015 figures from its Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which tracks job openings, hires, and separations (quits, layoffs and…

Request for Proposal: Small Business Lending Portal, Partner to Manage Portal and Evaluate Education

World Business Chicago (WBC) is in the process of developing an organization to simplify the access to capital for small businesses in Chicago. As a key component of this endeavor, WBC is…

Oscar Mayer to relocate headquarters to Chicago

Statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel

1871 named top university-affiliated business incubator in U.S.

Statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel

TmaxSoft Announces New U.S. Headquarters in Chicago

Chicago Headquarters part of major U.S. expansion

ChicagoInno: How to Ignite the Next Industrial Revolution in Chicago

By Thomas Day for ChicagoInno

Index Shows Midwest Economic Growth Below Average in September

This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released September 2015 figures for its Midwest Economy Index (MEI). The MEI is a weighted average of 129 indicators designed to measure non-farm…

Chicago Metro Unemployment Decreases to 4.9% in September 2015

This morning, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released preliminary September 2015 unemployment rates for all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). The unemployment rate measures the percentage of the local…

Case-Shiller Home Price Index

Today, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) released August 2015 values for its Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which tracks the prices of existing single-family homes in 20 U.S. metro areas. The index…

Built in Chicago: Chicago CTOs to know: Meet dough, Inc.’s Linwood Ma

By Sam Dewey, Built in Chicago

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