Key Components

• Accelerate industry growth
• Improve business processes
• Help legacy manufacturers adopt advanced technologies
• Expand workforce training programs
• Improve access to funding

Key Initiatives

• Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NNMi)
• Manufacturing Hub
• U of I Manufacturing Institute

Key Components

• Retain current businesses and encourage expansion
• Attract US companies looking to relocate or expand
• Attract global companies seeking to establish a North American headquarters
• Develop services to support headquarters

Key Initiatives

• Strategic outreach
• Data Center Express
• International initiatives

Key Components

• Reduce congestion
• Enhance aging infrastructure
• Develop logistics parks
• Support industry innovations
• Advocate for growth-minded laws and policies

Key Initiatives

• SINC: Supply Chain Innovation Network of Chicago
• Congestion management initiatives

Key Components

• Develop new products and programs
• Upgrade existing attractions
• Improve convention and business travel experience
• Leverage relationships to attract global travelers

Key Initiatives

• Elevate Chicago
• ThinkChicago
• Sporting & industry events

Key Components

• Connect companies with global market opportunities
• Improve export readiness
• Leverage Sister City, federal, state, and local resources to support reciprocal trade activities (e.g. FDI)

Key Initiatives

• Trade Accelerator

Key Components

• Enhance communication between employers and workforce development programs
• Connect corporations’ needs with workforce development programs’ objectives
• Provide accessible information to help institutions and workers make better decisions
• Produce, attract and retain more graduates in engineering and technical fields

Key Initiatives

• Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
• ThinkChicago
• Labor market information strategy

Key Components

• Expand entrepreneurial networks with customers, venture capital, and mentorship opportunities
• Focus on promising clusters
  – clean tech
  – bio science
  – web & mobile
• Deepen ties between academia, capital, and industry

Key Initiatives

• ChicagoNEXT
• Bio Hub
• UI Labs

Key Components

• Develop financing systems for transformative investments
• Identify and prioritize investments
• Develop sustainable maintenance and operations plans

Key Initiatives

• Infrastructure Trust
• Under-utilized assets project database
• Bus Rapid Transit

Key Components

• Help small and diverse businesses leverage their unique economic assets
• Encourage local procurement
• Simplify and connect funding channels for small businesses

Key Initiatives

• Seed Chicago
• Anchor Institutions
• Broadband: Smart Neighborhoods

Key Components

• Streamline government processes
• Engage residents and businesses directly
• Establish transparent performance metrics for government business processes

Key Initiatives

• Site Selector
• Streamlining Licensing
• Collaboration initiatives