Business Resources

• Chicago-Cook Business Center
  To provide market information, technical assistance, tax incentives, financing, building and land identification, strategic partner searches, and international expansion assistance for the Chicago-Cook County business communities
  
  
• Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Office of Trade and Investment
  To provide information about trade and investment for Illinois businesses
  
  
• Export-Import Bank of the United States
  To assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets
  
  
• Foreign Trade Organizations and Chambers of Commerce
  List of foreign trade organizations & chambers of commerce
  
  
• International Trade Centers
  To provide information, counseling and training to existing, new to-export companies interested in pursuing international trade opportunities
  
  
• Local Chambers of Commerce
  List of local Chambers of Commerce in Illinois
  
  
• U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Commercial Service – U.S. Export
  To promote exports of goods and services from the United States, particularly by small and medium-sized companies
  
  
• United States Small Business Administration
  To aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation
  
  
• World Business Chicago
  To help expand Chicago's economy through the growth of the private sector, building the best city in the world in which to live, work and play
  
  
• World Trade Center
  To provide the services our region needs to compete and succeed in the global markets
  
  

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