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Updates, announcements, and insights from the Chamber and local business community.
President’s Message: September 2013
Some 100 members are signed up to attend tonight’s Business After Hours hosted by Catalano & Associates, in partnership with Café Amano, Goalie’s Goodies, Pazzi di Pizza, Pints and The Snuggery. Today kicks off a busy month (aren’t they all?) that includes two...
President’s Message: September 2013
Dear Members: I trust you enjoyed the Labor Day holiday weekend even if it include such mundane activities as catching up on laundry, doing some yard work or walking the dogs. Addison LLC Redevelopment Project “Be it hereby resolved that the Board of Directors...
President’s Message: August 2013
Dear Members: Thousands of American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) members—with Director of Membership Kevin O’Keeffe and I among a strong Illinois contingent—from across the United States, Canada and elsewhere convened in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from July...
President’s Message: July 2013
Dear Members: On behalf of the staff of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry, I wish you all a happy and safe Fourth of July holiday week. Overdevelopment Bad, But What? Let’s begin with the premise that all of us are against overdevelopment. Or—in the...
June Presidents Message
Dear Members: If you did not stay up until midnight on Friday to learn if Illinois’ 98th General Assembly passed legislation to reform the state’s under-funded public pension system—and numerous other major pieces of legislation—you earned at least one less...
May President’s Message
Dear Members: One of the major battles being waged in Springfield during the 98th Illinois General Assembly is a Senate Democratic proposal (Senate Bill 2) to restructure the state’s economic development agency, a.k.a DCEO (Department of Commerce and Economic...
April’s President’s Message
Dear Members: With the April 9 Consolidated Elections in sight, it’s time once again for citizens across DuPage County to exercise one of their greatest rights as Americans by casting votes for their candidates of choice at the municipal, township, public school,...
March Presidents Message
Dear Members: On behalf of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Marketing Committee of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry, I want to publicly thank the Elmhurst City Council for its most-recent vote of support for the Got It! in Elmhurst...
February’s President’s Message
Dear Members: On Tuesday (February 5), representatives of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry and chambers across the state will travel to Springfield to participate in the Illinois Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (IACCE)/Illinois Chamber...
December President’s Message
Dear Members: While political parties continue to bicker over the level of America’s economic recovery, a most disturbing trend continues to be the number of jobs openings—an estimated 3.2 million nationwide and some 160,000 here in Illinois—for which...
November President’s Message
Dear Members: You are receiving my President’s Message for November early as I leave for Phoenix on Sunday morning to compete in the Men’s Senior Baseball League World Series. November 6 General Election There is a lot more than a Presidential race to be...
October 2012 President’s Message
Dear Members: As you read this, the Thorne Building on Addison Avenue in downtown Elmhurst and the Elmhurst Ford building on North York Road are being demolished to make way for new and exciting developments…or should I say redevelopments. The Addison...
