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The Alliance would like to thank Jeff Malehorn, President & CEO, World Business Chicago, for meeting with Alliance Illinois Chairman Mike Mullen and Alliance President & CEO Kelly O’Brien in September to discuss the potential for collaboration.
The U.S. Commercial Service in Beijing is inviting American companies to join them at the U.S. Pavilion at Water Expo China 2014, taking place December 1-3, in Beijing, China.
In September, The Times of Northwest Indiana ran a three-part series suggesting that Northwest Indiana look to Southeast Wisconsin as a model for economic growth.
Alliance for Regional Development President and CEO Kelly O’Brien was invited to represent the Chicago Metropolitan Tri-State region as part of an international delegation organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and traveled to Bangkok, Thailand on August 4 for five days.
The hardworking volunteers of the Alliance for Regional Development’s Working Teams have been making great forward strides this summer in their efforts to strategize plans to implement the recommendation of the OECD Territorial Review of Chicago’s Tri-State area and collaborate across jurisdictional lines.
An update on recent news from Alliance President & CEO Kelly O’Brien.
The Alliance Working Teams met for a quarterly Strategic Doing workshop on Tuesday, June 3, hosted by the Purdue University Center for Innovation through Visualization & Simulation (CIVS) in Hammond, Indiana.
An update on recent news from Alliance President & CEO Kelly O’Brien.
Alliance for Regional Development Wisconsin Operational Chair Carmel Ruffolo and President & CEO Kelly O’Brien traveled to Washington in June to meet with senior leaders from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (E.D.A.)
On May 28, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the first 12 communities that will be designated Manufacturing Communities as part of the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) initiative. The Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas were both included in the list of initial IMCP communities.