Initiatives

Current News & Events


09-14-07 Demetria Giannisis, President and CEO of the Chicago Manufacturing Center will be speaking on "Ending the Compliance Fire-Drill: The Business Case for Design-for-Environment" in the National Manufacturing Week Conference at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL, on Monday September 24th at 9:00AM. National Manufacturing Week is the largest manufacturing event in the US. It covers the full spectrum of design and manufacturing.
09-8-06 Great Lakes Manufacturing Council (GLMC) launches website to foster manufacturing in the Great Lakes region.
12-8-05 Advisory Board Appointed for Illinois Homeland Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center
10-20-05 GLP Holds its first general meeting. The theme: Sustainable Preparedness = Resilience & Economic Security
10-20-05 GLP President, Demetria Giannisis, speaks on Chicago Public Radio about the need for sustainability and how it concerns the security of the Great Lakes Region (Interview begins at 14:34 in the program)

 
  • Every $1.00 in manufactured goods generates an additional $1.43 worth of additional economic activity. This is more than any other economic sector.