The April 6 Consolidated Elections will determine the City of Elmhurst’s new mayor and who will represent our municipality on the Elmhurst City Council, as City Treasurer and as City Clerk, along with various school board, park district board and library board seats.
The Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been recognized by the United States Census Bureau as an “invaluable” member of the 2020 Census Community Partnership and Engagement Program for our Chamber’s support of the City of Elmhurst Complete Count Committee’s Everyone Counts, Elmhurst! campaign.
Although state-mandated Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic restrictions prohibited members and guests from gathering on January 29 as originally planned to celebrate the 102nd Annual ECCI Awards Gala, our Chamber hopes to properly fete our 2020 business and individual honorees in person by mid-2021 at the latest.
Late last Sunday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump ended his threat of a veto (or, worse, pocket veto) and signed into law the $900 billion federal relief package that both the U.S. House of Representatives and then U.S. Senate passed by an overwhelming majority six days earlier.
As part of today’s many Giving Tuesday appeals, the ECCI Centennial Celebration NFP—an Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization—is asking for your tax-deductible support for our Civic Hall of Fame Public Memorial Fund, Second Century Fund and/or Ralph P. Pechanio Student Internship Endowment Fund at Elmhurst University.
The November 3 Presidential Election not only will decide which candidate resides in the White House for the next four years, but which party will control the majority in the United States Senate and if Illinois residents will opt for a progressive or graduated income tax rate over our state’s current flat rate.
As part of their November 3 Presidential Election ballot, voters across the State of Illinois will decide on an amendment proposing to change Illinois’ Constitution to allow state lawmakers to adopt a graduated (or progressive) income tax formula over the current flat tax rate.
In celebration of September’s Chamber of Commerce Week in Illinois, the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry will sponsor a month of networking and fundraising events, offer recruitment incentives for new and reactivating members, and conduct a special sale on Elmhurst-Opoly board games.
In compliance with the Phase 4: Revitalization guidelines within Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan, the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry in late July safely resumed monthly networking events—likely the first chamber in the state to do so.
Happy Fourth of July week to all!!! I will spend this holiday weekend as I have many previous years…playing on a ballfield. Here’s a piece of July 4-connected Elmhurst trivia for you: The last city-sponsored fireworks show took place in 1986 as part of Elmhurst’s Sesquicentennial Celebration (150 years), but that was not our community’s fireworks finale. Watch Elmhurst TV’s 2017 retrospective, “Elmfest Gone, But Not Forgotten,” if you don’t already know.
While willingly adhering to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Stay at Home” Executive Order May 30 extension, business leaders and elected officials across our state are speaking out in opposition to a longer-than-expected timeline within the Governor’s five-phase Restore Illinois plan developed in partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).