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January 28, 2016

Local Employment Trends December 2015

Today, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) released preliminary December 2015 unemployment rates for municipalities across the state based on the current population survey (or “household survey”). The following brief summarizes this data, as well as job estimates by industry…

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January 27, 2016

Chicago Based Startup Triples Size of Office & Will Triple Staff in 2016

ReviewTrackers Finds New Home and Leverages Job Creation Tax Credit To Withstand Big Growth for Upcoming Year

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January 26, 2016

Case-Shiller Home Price Index, November 2015

Today, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) released November 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…

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January 26, 2016

2015 Year in Review

Dear Colleague, I’d like to take a minute to thank you for your support in 2015, and provide a recap of the work we’ve done to drive growth throughout the…

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January 25, 2016

$553.8M VC invested in Chicago in Q4 2015

DJX VentureSource has released its Q4 2015 venture capital report, which tracks investments into companies that have received at least one round of venture funding. Chicago’s $553.8 million VC dollars invested…

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January 25, 2016

CASE Generates More Than $9M in Revenue Since Inception

World Business Chicago’s CASE initiative (Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy) has generated more than $9 million in new contracts since its inception in 2014. The program leverages anchors (large…

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January 25, 2016

Chicago Growing, Fourth Quarter 2015

GE Healthcare joins list of companies locating or expanding in Chicago

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January 22, 2016

December Home Prices and Sales Up Over Last Year

Today, the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR) reported that residential sales in the city of Chicago increased slightly by 0.4% since last year, with 2,029 sales in December 2015 compared…

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