Manufacturing
in Chicago
Manufacturing is the single most important sector of the Chicago-area’s economy
Manufacturing has the largest, positive ‘ripple effect’ on the rest of the economy: each manufacturing job creates three more in related sectors
Manufacturing in Chicago is directly and indirectly responsible for over 1.7 million jobs
Careers in manufacturing are among the highest-paid, averaging $64,000 a year, including benefits
There are nearly 10,000 job openings each year in manufacturing in Cook County alone
The Chicago metro-area is home to 11,558 small, medium and large manufacturers
New Renewable Energy Innovation Park
CMRC has unveiled a proposal for a new Renewable Energy Innovation Park on the West Side of Chicago. The R&D center will conduct research into renewable energy technologies and the creation of manufacturing businesses related to that industry. The park would contain a Renewable Energy R&D innovation center focused on the commercial wind turbine industry; a business incubator for the commercialization of research; an industrial...
Pres. Bush Meets with Manufacturing Businesses
By Sandra Westlund-Deenihan, President of Quality Float Works, Inc.
I was honored to join President Bush and a dozen other business leaders to discuss the financial crisis impacting our nation. In fact, this was my second opportunity to sit down with the President and discuss how the economy impacts the manufacturing industry. President Bush asked me how things were going at Quality Float Works and I told him business i...
The Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council (CMRC) is committed to improving the competitiveness and performance of our manufacturing companies, increasing compensation for employees, providing good jobs for residents, and increasing revenues and lowering costs to government through a world-class education and workforce development system and policy framework
