from Curbed Chicago
Greening the Food Desert
The Fresh Moves Mobile Market, created out of retired CTA buses, recently hit a milestone of serving fresh produce to more than 10,000 South Side residents. The market, run by Urban Growers Collective (UGC), manages seven farms
 on 11 acres of land throughout the South Side. The mobile Markets enable it to bring fresh food and programs to its partners - community sites, health centers, schools, senior living centers, and farmers markets in Chicago neighborhoods.
Click here to read the article.
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A Call for Corporate Partners
Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events is always looking for partners. A marketing solutions powerhouse, DCASE produces some of Chicago's largest festivals and events, including the Taste of Chicago, the Chicago Air & Water Show and the Chicago Blues, and Jazz Festivals.
DCASE's extensive inventory of events and programs reaches across all demographic interests and draws an estimated 10M guests annually. Engaging area businesses in the Chicago's public events is mutually beneficial, generating valuable press exposure, driving traffic and sales, and building customer loyalty for those partners.
To learn more about partnership opportunities, click here.
or email
chicagopartnerships@cityofchicago.org
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Impacting the Environment 
A Circular Economy Solution
Discarded tires contaminate the air, soil, and water and are homes for rodents and insects, particularly mosquitoes. In January 2018 the Illinois EPA coordinated with local government and collected close to 6 tons of used, dumped tires from roadsides, parks, and abandoned sites. Globally, 1.5 billion tires are  dumped or incinerated every year, releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Enter Black Bear, a Dutch-owned cleantech company that has developed a unique carbonization process to recover 30% of the Carbon Black (rCB) found in tires. Traditionally produced by burning oil, the substance is in pen ink, smartphone covers and pretty much anything painted black. It's vital for the production of tires, technical rubber goods, and inks - one of the company's major clients uses the recovered raw material to make powder coatings. Black Bear now offers the first Cradle-to-Cradle Certified™ recovered Carbon Black to customers worldwide. Click here to read more.
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Specializing in hard-to-find small space 
for lease of sale throughout Chicagoland
CHICAGO PROPERTY INVESTORS LLC
Contact Michael Goldstein - 773-504-1200
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View inventory of commercial and industrial
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SCORE - Resource for Women Entrepreneurs
Small Business Success: CPR Wrap
With help from SCORE, an inventor took an idea on a piece of paper to a prototype
and then launched her business.
Despite CPR certification and career as a medical professional, Felicia Jackson froze when her two-year-old son stopped breathing one day. Her husband acted quickly and saved the toddler, but Jackson was left shaken and determined to prevent the same thing from happening to others. Her invention - CPR Wrap - is disposable CPR te
mplate that lays across the victim's chest and provides step-by-step instructions. In addition to the instructions, CPR Wrap has an attached one-way valve mouth barrier and visual hand placements for proper compression.
Click here to learn about SCORE resources for women entrepreneurs
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Visit InBusiness/Chicago on the web
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Disasters Happen - Prepare, Respond, Recover
September is National Preparedness Month
The U.S. Small Business Administration is on the ground immediately after a disaster strikes - committed to ensuring America's 30 million small businesses have the resources needed to address any challenges they face. In many cases. It's with the help of low-interest disaster loans. Instead of relying solely on insurance or a loan to rebuild after a disaster, having a plan in place
 beforehand will ensure your business' resilience in the face of crisis and better able to rebound quickly.
Thursday, Sept. 27 - 2 M CST
Effective Business Continuity Planning
Webinar presented by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - Click here to register
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Make No Little Halloween Plans 
A Haunted Scavenger Hunt - Friday, October 19th; 7 to 10 PM. Atlas Obscura's Halloween adventure will send you scavenging for the history of spurned socialites, grotesque ornament, long-forgotten businesses, anguished architects, and terrible disasters. Friday, October 19th - 7 to 10 PM.
If you're really into Scavenger hunts and Chicago treks,
click here.
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Coming in October
A month-long Halloween celebration right in Chicago's backyard at Goose Island - Jack's Pumpkin Patch. In addition to having Chicago's largest Corn Maze, there will be carnival games, pumpkin carving and a pop-up beer garden
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