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Alliance Manager of Economic Development Initiatives Michael Benami Doyle was interviewed by The Pew Charitable Trusts this month regarding the trending rise in transit use and reduction in vehicle miles traveled in American cities including Chicago.
As part of its continued focus on the water sector and ways to regionalize the growing water cluster, the Alliance Green Growth working team in collaboration with Alliance partner Loyola University will hold a Water Summit for regional water technology companies in November.
The Alliance Working Teams convened for their autumn quarterly meeting on Friday, October 10 at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin.
On October 7, Alliance Wisconsin Chairman Paul Jones hosted a special update meeting for Wisconsin stakeholders at A.O. Smith headquarters in Milwaukee. Invited guests received a status report on the Working Teams initiatives from Alliance Wisconsin Operational Chair Dr. Carmel Ruffolo and President & CEO Kelly O’Brien.
Alliance partner Northern Illinois University (NIU) accepted a national award last month at the University Economic Development Association’s annual summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on behalf of a program aimed at accelerating the engineering and high-tech workforce for Rockford’s burgeoning aerospace industry.
The findings of Indiana’s regional cities study are available today at IndianaRegionalCities.com. The study identifies strategies that aim to help cities across Indiana transform into national economic powerhouses.
On Thursday, October 23, Alliance President & CEO Kelly O’Brien was interviewed by Fox32 News regarding data released by the Illinois Department of Employment security indicating a continuing drop in jobless numbers for urban areas across the tri-state region.
The Alliance in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will host the second annual Summit on Regional Competitiveness on December 19, 2014. The Summit–an invitation-only event–will serve as an opportunity to brief stakeholders about the progress of the Alliance Working Teams and will
On Monday, September 29, Alliance President & CEO Kelly O’Brien spoke on a panel at the EDA Chicago Region Economic Development District (EDD) Peer Learning Conference, organized jointly by US EDA and the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) at the Knickerbocker Hotel in downtown Chicago.
In August, Alliance Illinois Chairman Mike Mullen and President & CEO Kelly O’Brien met with Brian Miller, joint Director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) College Program and the Illinois Water Resource Center, to discuss an IISG FRP for Integrated Assessment research projects.