Economic Development Council
2005 Calendar
January 26th
Monthly Lunch, Albert C. Hanna, President/Chairman, Mid-North Financial Services, Inc., "Which was harder to conquer, climbing Mt. Everest or the 5th Floor of City Hall?" - Tower Club, Noon
February 15th
Annual Small Business Administration Update Breakfast, co-sponsored by Small Business Growth Corporation - Tower Club, 8:00 a.m.
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February 23th
Monthly Lunch - Jim LaBelle (Site: www.chicagometropolis2020.org), "Metropolis 2020: The Metropolis Freight Plan: Delivering the Goods" Tower Club, Noon
March 22th
Breakfast Seminar - "Technology Development in the Region" Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 7:30 to 11:00 am. ($50.00)
March 30th
Monthly Lunch - Raymond J. Briscuso, Jr., Executive Director of Biotechnology Industry Organization (Site: www.bio.org), "Sneak Preview: BIO 2006 Chicago - Introducing the Midwest Supercluster" Tower Club, Noon
April 26th
Breakfast Seminar - "An Assessment of the Promise of Technology Related Growth" Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 7:30 to 11:00 am. ($50.00)
April 27th

Monthly Lunch - Ann Ridge Director-Marketing Illinois Arts Council, "Arts in Illinois" Tower Club, Noon

May 19th
Breakfast Seminar - "Impacting Commercialization of Technology in the Region" University Illinois Chicago, 8:30 to 11:00 am. ($50.00)
May 25th

Monthly Lunch - Douglas Kinley, President, Small Business Growth Corporation, "Development in Illinois - Brick & Mortar Still Important!" Tower Club, Noon

June 29th

Monthly Lunch - Andrew Mooney, "The State of the Neighborhoods" Tower Club, Noon

July 27th

Monthly Lunch - Lee Neubecker, President, Forensicon, "How do you reinvent yourself to survive in business?" Tower Club, Noon

August 31st

Monthly Lunch - Dan Rutherford, Illinois State Senator, "Springfield: What Works and What Doesn't?" Tower Club, Noon

September 21st

Breakfast Seminar - "Defining an Economic Development Roadmap for the Region to Obtain the Benefits of Technology" PriceWaterhouse Coopers, 7:30 to 11:00 am. ($50.00)

September 28th
Monthly Lunch - Daphne Preuss, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Chicago, "Chromatin, Inc." - Tower Club, Noon
October 26th
Monthly Lunch - Christopher A. Bloom, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC and Coordinator, EDC Technology Commercialization Task Force, "A Roadmap for Multiple Vehicles" - Tower Club, Noon
November 30th
Judith McIntyre, Executive Director, Chicago Christian Industrial League, "The Affordable Housing Market in Chicago" - Tower Club, Noon