Broadband investment to create more jobs in Illinois. It seems like smartphones have been around a long time. But the iPhone only went on the market in 2007. The first iPad hit the shelves less than three years ago. Now Apple has sold 100 million of them. It happened so fast. ...

“This is what change looks like.” – President Obama upon signing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010 ...

It's time for the Legislature to pass regulations so the industry can come to Illinois   We've all been reading about the new abundance of supply of natural gas across the country due to new drilling techniques. This shale gas has dramatically altered the energy world and created hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the country.   A just-released study funded by the Illinois Chamber Foundation ...

Earlier this year the Chamber Foundation commissioned DePaul University's Chaddick Institute to prepare an analysis of the public transportation systems that serve northeastern Illinois. This was done in recognition that the surface transportation bill "MAP 21" Congress sanctioned early this year will expire at the conclusion of the next term. Likewise, the Illinois "Jobs Now" capital program authorized in ...

FEDERAL ELECTION OUTCOME: The Illinois electorate has chosen to once again move the partisan pendulum in the opposite direction. The Obama backlash that sent five new Republicans to Congress two years ago was reversed last week when five new Democrat candidates were elected to represent Illinois Congressional districts. In addition, the Illinois delegation gained one new Republican congressman when Rodney D ...

On November 6, Illinois voters should approve a constitutional amendment to make it more difficult for the General Assembly to increase public pension benefits.   Voters have been given an unprecedented opportunity to help control their future tax obligations by voting yes on the pension amendment that will appear on the general election ballot. An affirmative vote will simultaneously remind Illinois l ...

With the 2012 General Election just around the corner, your chamber is working hard supporting pro-business candidates for office. For the first time this year, the Illinois Chamber's political arm, Chamber PAC, has endorsed not only candidates for state office, but for Congress as well. To back up those endorsements, the Illinois Chamber is spending approximately $800,000 in support of the preferred candid ...

Since 2006, the Illinois Chamber has been the leading force to highlight the need for meaningful reform of the workers' compensation system. We not only highlighted the need; we developed a strategy to actually define reform and the tactics to convince the legislature that change was needed. One of the steps in our tactics was establishing an annual one-day conference to focus on the problems of Illinois' w ...