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Cook County Selected for $1.1 Million Grant Award to Strengthen Solar Installation Opportunities for Business Owners and Workers from Historically-Excluded Communities

Cook County business owners and workers to be connected to business support resources and training pipelines leading to good jobs

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Economic Development

Cook County Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Grant as Part of UIC-Led Consortium

Cook County – Cook County Government was recently awarded a $675,000 U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) grant as part of a UIC-Led Consortium.

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Economic Development

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 prog

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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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Economic Development

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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