Manufacturing
in Chicago

Manufacturing is the single most important sector of the Chicago-area’s economy

Manufacturing has the largest, positive ‘ripple effect’ on the rest of the economy: each manufacturing job creates three more in related sectors

Manufacturing in Chicago is directly and indirectly responsible for over 1.7 million jobs

Careers in manufacturing are among the highest-paid, averaging $64,000 a year, including benefits

There are nearly 10,000 job openings each year in manufacturing in Cook County alone

The Chicago metro-area is home to 11,558 small, medium and large manufacturers

By JOE BARRETT

CHICAGO -- One day in August 2005, Dan Swinney went to the Chicago public schools for help in his crusade to revive manufacturing here. Instead, Mr. Swinney left his meeting with some homework: design a new high school to train the workers needed to make that revival happen.

This past fall, the school, Austin Polytechnical Academy, opened inside a buildi...

Executive Committee Meeting Date Changed to June 18th, 2008.

The Executive Committee meeting scheduled for May 21 has been changed to June 18 and expanded to include a special presentation and panel discussion featuring Richard Longworth, former Chicago Tribune business writer and author of the new book “Caught in the Middle—America's Heartland in the Ag...