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Cook County Announces $71 Millon Source Grow Grant Program to Help Historically Excluded Small Businesses in Pandemic Recovery

Applications for $10,000 Grants to Open on October 3

CHICAGO—Today the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development announced the launch of the Source Grow Grant through the Cook County Small Business Source, a p

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President Preckwinkle Announces Upcoming Application Launch of the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot

Cook County announces outreach and administrative partners to assist in implementing largest publicly-funded guaranteed income pilot in American history

(COOK COUNTY, IL) — Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joi

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President Preckwinkle and Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) Announce Launch of Manufacturing Reinvented Program

The $5 million program will provide business advising services and implementation grants to manufacturing companies in suburban Cook County

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President Preckwinkle Announces Partnership with United Way of Metro Chicago on $15 Million ‘Transforming Places’ Pilot Program

Cook County’s investment is the first outcome of the Cook County Equity Fund’s recommendation to pursue place-based, community-driven and sustainable economic development.

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President Preckwinkle Announces over $14 million in Initial Awards of Cook County’s Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Grants

COOK COUNTY — Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was joined by Cook County Commissioner Bill Lowry and Avik Das, Executive Director of the Justice Advisory Council, to announce the first set of awards for the

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