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Title:  

State Report: Recycling and Waste Reduction Are Vital Source of Jobs in the Illinois Economy

 
 Volume/Number:  2010 November 15 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Press Release: A detailed new economic study released today by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) documents the vital role that the recycling and reuse industry plays in the Illinois economy. 
 Date Created:  11 15 2010 
 Agency ID:  1447**10 
 ISL ID:  000000034121   Original UID: 15650 FIRST WORD: State 
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State Economic Development Director Announces $3.2 Million Available for Recycling Programs

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 March 2 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today announced that $3.2 million is available to assist local governments, businesses, and other public and private sector entities enhance their recycling efforts. 
 Date Created:  03 02 2011 
 Agency ID:  231**11 
 ISL ID:  000000034708   Original UID: 16245 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Director Touts Rockford Area Initiatives to Improve Patient Satisfaction and Address Health Care Shortages

 
 Volume/Number:  2010 October 25 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Press Release: Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley will visit Rockford Memorial Hospital tomorrow to highlight the State's investment of federal workforce funds toward job training in health care directed to five hospitals in the Northern Stateline region. 
 Date Created:  10 25 2010 
 Agency ID:  1346*10 
 ISL ID:  000000034901   Original UID: 16352 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Director to Announce Workforce Grant for the Quad Cities

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 April 4 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  ROCK ISLAND Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley will be in Rock Island tomorrow to announce a federal grant to assist workers in the Quad Cities who will be displaced after the relocation of TACOM-Rock Island Arsenal to Warren, Michigan. 
 Date Created:  04 04 2011 
 Agency ID:  389**11 
 ISL ID:  000000035274   Original UID: 16719 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State of Illinois Announces Partnership to Strengthen Illinois Main Street Program

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 May 10 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) today announced a new partnership, reinforcing the agencies long-standing relationship, in support of the Illinois Main Street Program. 
 Date Created:  05 10 2011 
 Agency ID:  566**11 
 ISL ID:  000000036016   Original UID: 17143 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Director to Visit College of DuPage to Discuss Small Business Job Creation Tax Credit

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 May 10 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Director Warren Ribley will visit the College of DuPage's main campus on Wednesday morning. Director Ribley will remind companies and non-profits of the availability of the Illinois Small Business Job Creation Tax Credit, a $2,500 tax credit available to qualified businesses that add a new position by June 30. 
 Date Created:  05 10 2011 
 Agency ID:  561**11 
 ISL ID:  000000036017   Original UID: 17144 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Announces Program Guidelines for Public Sector Energy Efficiency Electric and Gas Programs

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 May 31 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The State Energy Office at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today released program guidelines for electric and gas rebates through its Illinois Energy Now program. 
 Date Created:  05 31 2011 
 Agency ID:  663**11 
 ISL ID:  000000036264   Original UID: 17359 FIRST WORD: State 
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State Awarded $2 Million Federal Grant to Help Dislocated Workers in Southern Illinois

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 June 30 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  State officials today announced that Illinois has been awarded a $2 million federal grant by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to help workers who lost their jobs due to severe storms and flooding earlier this month in southern Illinois. The funding will provide dislocated workers in certain federal disaster-declared counties with temporary employment assisting in the clean-up and restoration of public properties in 21 impacted counties. 
 Date Created:  06 30 2011 
 Agency ID:  774**11 
 ISL ID:  000000036583   Original UID: 17680 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Director Announces Nearly $1.3 Million to Revitalize Communities Throughout Will County

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 July 19 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today highlighted $1.26 million in federal funding to stabilize communities and make infrastructure improvements in Will County communities, including Wilmington. 
 Date Created:  07 19 2011 
 Agency ID:  826**11 
 ISL ID:  000000036754   Original UID: 17897 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Director Announces $525,000 Federal Community Development Grant to Build Recycling Facility

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 August 15 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today announced a $525,000 Community Development Assistance Program (CDAP) grant for the Village of Riverton. The grant will be used for local infrastructure improvements in support of a new material recycling recovery facility, which is expected to create 25 full-time jobs. 
 Date Created:  08 15 2011 
 Agency ID:  918**11 
 ISL ID:  000000037530   Original UID: 18446 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Announces Start of Home Heating Assistance Enrollment

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 August 25 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's Office of Energy Assistance today announced that seniors and people with disabilities can begin applying for winter heating assistance through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) beginning Sept. 1. 
 Date Created:  08 25 2011 
 Agency ID:  988**11 
 ISL ID:  000000037659   Original UID: 18576 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Director to Visit Centralia Storm Clean-Up Site to See Temporary Work Program in Action

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 September 1 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Director Warren Ribley tomorrow will join local officials in Centralia to visit the site where clean-up efforts are underway following severe storms that hit the area between April 19 and April 25, 2011. 
 Date Created:  09 01 2011 
 Agency ID:  1018**11 
 ISL ID:  000000037814   Original UID: 18735 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Director Announces Nearly $4.6 Million in Federal Funding for Infrastructure Improvements on Chicagos South Side

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 September 19 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today highlighted $4.6 million in federal funding to make infrastructure improvements in Pullman Park, located on Chicago's south side. Awarded through the Ike Disaster Recovery Program, the funding will be used to make repairs to road and sewer infrastructure leading up to the Pullman Park retail site currently under development, to be anchored by a Walmart supercenter. 
 Date Created:  09 19 2011 
 Agency ID:  1069**11 
 ISL ID:  000000037976   Original UID: 18940 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Officials Highlight $580,000 Grant to Support New Rural Health Clinic

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 October 18 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Officials with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today joined in the groundbreaking of a new rural health clinic that will help serve Ferrell Hospital in southern Illinois. DCEO provided more than $580,000 in federal funding to the City of Eldorado to build, furnish and equip the new clinic. 
 Date Created:  10 18 2011 
 Agency ID:  1169**11 
 ISL ID:  000000038392   Original UID: 19137 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Announces Open Enrollment for Home Heating Assistance

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 October 27 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's Office of Energy Assistance today announced that anyone eligible to receive winter heating assistance through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) can apply beginning on Nov. 1. 
 Date Created:  10 27 2011 
 Agency ID:  1208**11 
 ISL ID:  000000039235   Original UID: 19816 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Agency Announces Statewide Export Seminars

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 October 31 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Office of Trade and Investment is hosting free informational seminars for any small or medium-sized business interested in expanding its export opportunities. The seminars will provide businesses with information about Illinois' new $1.26 million State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) grant program and other services that are available to help businesses find new overseas markets. 
 Date Created:  10 31 2011 
 Agency ID:  1221**11 
 ISL ID:  000000039281   Original UID: 19856 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Agency Announces Expansion of Magnum Steel Works

 
 Volume/Number:  2011 November 18 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Assistant Director Dan Seals today joined local officials to announce that coal mining equipment manufacturer Magnum Steel Works, Inc. is investing more than $13 million over four years to expand its current Mt. Vernon facility, nearly quadrupling it in size. As part of its investment package, the company will strengthen southern Illinois economy by creating and retaining 52 Illinois jobs over two years via the companys initial $4 million investment. Magnum Steel Works expects to invest an additional $9 million over the next four years, bringing the companys total investment to $13 million. 
 Date Created:  11 18 2011 
 Agency ID:  1297**11 
 ISL ID:  000000039430   Original UID: 19995 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Energy Office Announces 2012 Schedule For Free Illinois Energy Conservation Code Training Series

 
 Volume/Number:  2012 January 11 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  The State Energy Office at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today announced the 2012 schedule for the Illinois Energy Conservation Code (IECC) training series aimed at the state's construction industry. These training events will be offered at no cost to Illinois investor-owned utility customers and will allow homebuilders, designers, code officials, realtors, and home performance professionals to learn about the most up-to-date energy conservation codes for new construction, additions and renovation projects in Illinois. 
 Date Created:  01 11 2012 
 Agency ID:  22**12 
 ISL ID:  000000040323   Original UID: 20757 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Commerce Director Announces Capital Funding for Second Round of Green Jobs Training Grants

 
 Volume/Number:  2012 January 10 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today announced $3,398,444 in capital funding to ten organizations that will train nearly 700 weatherization specialists across the state as part of the second phase of the Urban Weatherization Initiative (UWI). UWI is the nation's first state-funded weatherization program and one of the largest job creation initiatives to date for urban communities in Illinois. Governor Quinn kicked-off the first phase the multi-year green jobs training program last September by announcing the first round of funding for home energy audit training with national certification. 
 Date Created:  01 10 2012 
 Agency ID:  19**12 
 ISL ID:  000000040326   Original UID: 20750 FIRST WORD: State 
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Title:  

State Economic Development Director Announces New Tools to Increase Distribution of Local Food

 
 Volume/Number:  2012 January 12 
 Issuing Agency:   
 Description:  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley this morning addressed the annual Illinois Specialty Growers Association conference in Springfield. At the conference, Dir. Ribley highlighted ways the state is working to increase markets for local foods. 
 Date Created:  01 12 2012 
 Agency ID:  31**12 
 ISL ID:  000000040446   Original UID: 20760 FIRST WORD: State 
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