Ideally located just 17 miles northwest of the Chicago Loop, Des Plaines has a diversified, vibrant and growing business community. In addition to being the home to several Fortune 500 companies and international businesses, there is a comfortable blend of commercial, financial, industrial, professional, service-oriented and retail sectors.
Des Plaines provides a demographic cross section of employee skill levels supporting high tech, industry, manufacturing and distribution concerns. The city is serviced by state and interstate highways, Metra rail line, PACE bus, and all forms of business, freight and passenger flights at nearby O’Hare International Airport.
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SCORE 'Counselors to America's Small Business' is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. The Chicago Chapter of SCORE provides free business counseling, free counsulting, inexpensive workshops and other resources to entrepreneurs and small business through locations in the Chicago area.
SCORE counselors are executives and business owners who have achieved success in their fields and now, as volunteers, want to help you do the same. About 100 counselors are in the chapter, giving you access to experts in many industries.
SCORE counselors are at the Des Plaines Chamber offices the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month. To make an appointment click here or call 847-824-4200.
Entrepreneurs can take advantage of new, free online training and other resources offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration to assist them during this period of economic recovery.
The SBA offers a variety of online courses to assist small businesses in more effectively managing their firms in the current economy. The new course topics, available at http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses, include revising business plans to reposition with current conditions, winning customers in a slowing economy, restructuring existing debt, and diversifying your customer base with federal contracts.
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