ICNC's 2019 ImpactICNC supports and strengthens the West Side community and its businesses and community members through incubation, business advising, workforce development, and neighborhood planning.
From opening the new food and beverage incubator, The Hatchery, to creating a new culinary program offered for young adults on the West Side, to upholding the Kinzie Corridor Planned Manufacturing District - 2019 was a year of growth and exciting achievements for all of us at ICNC.
Letter from Steve DeBretto, ICNC's Executive DirectorBy any measure, 2019 was a pivotal year for modern urban industry on Chicago’s West Side. After a year and a half of study and analysis by the Department of Planning and Development, the Chicago City Council passed a zoning ordinance reaffirming our Kinzie Industrial Corridor Planned Manufacturing District, ensuring that bakers, brewers, florists, and countless other small companies that make and move products can continue to do business close to the Loop, their workforces, and each other.
ICNC and joint venture partner Accion opened the doors to The Hatchery, a first-of-its-kind food and beverage manufacturing incubator with 56 private kitchen spaces. It’s filling up quickly, and neighborhood business owners are working right next to product development teams from multinational corporations; they’re sharing ideas, skills, and experiences. And our original incubator, Make City, is fully occupied with more than 100 energetic, growing urban manufacturing businesses who challenge us to do better every day. As ICNC continues to grow – incubating more businesses, weighing in on public policy, and driving inclusive economic and community development – we count on you, our members and supporters, to help us help the companies who create jobs, wealth, and opportunity in our neighborhood and beyond. Workforce DevelopmentThe Workforce Development Department provides HR and personnel management support to small businesses and helps local people find local jobs, along with two job training programs - a women's EMT training program and Impact Culinary Training.
Economic DevelopmentThe Economic Development Department advocates to the City of Chicago’s decision makers on behalf of small businesses in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor Planned Manufacturing District.
Illinois Small Business Development CenterThe Illinois Small Busines Development Center International Trade Center at ICNC is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, and the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago (ICNC).
The Illinois Small Business Development Center at ICNC provides no-cost business advising to small businesses and a variety of educational workshops.
Illinois Small Business Development Center International Trade CenterThe Illinois Small Business Development Center International Trade Center at ICNC provides no-cost business advising to businesses interested in exporting their products.
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Incubation
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3 Major Successes of 2019
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Kinzie Corridor PMD Was Upheld!
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Impact Culinary Training Launched!
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Staff + Board of Directors
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ICNC + KIDC Financials
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The Kinzie Industrial Development Corporation is the 501(c)(3) charitable organization of the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago.
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All financial numbers are unaudited.
