Week of August 19, 2019
Your Weekly E-Newsletter
Upcoming Chamber Events
August 28: Board of Di rector's Meeting. 8 a.m. at the Chamber Office.

August 29: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at TSS Photography, 9405 Bormet Dr. #5, Mokena. 5:30 to 6 p.m. Free networking event. Click here for directions to location.

September 2: Chamber office closed for Labor Day.

September 9 - 13: National Chamber of Commerce Week.

September 10: Monthly General Membership Meeting at Mokena Community Public Library,11327 W. 195th Street, Mokena. 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. Guest Speaker: Ryan Hesslau of ForeverU. Free networking event.

September 12: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Business After Hours at the new and improved Mokena Chamber of Commerce Office! 5 to 8 p.m. Ribbon Cutting at 5:30 p.m. 11104 Front Street, Suite 1B, Mokena. Also, join us for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for our upstairs neighbor MBLO Funding Inc./ Lincoln-Way Realty. Same time/location!

September 19: Business After Hours at FNBC Bank and Trust, 11100 Front Street, Mokena. 5 to 7 p.m.

September 22: 1st Annual Mokena Chamber Ambassador Program "Kick the Keg" fundraiser at Crafted Bottle Shop and Tap Room, 19200 S. LaGrange Road, Mokena. 12 to 4 p.m. Raffles, games, networking and fun! Light refreshments by chamber vendors. If you would like your business promoted at this event, please consider donating a raffle prize! Please contact Melissa at the Chamber Office or Ambassador Chair Susie Stringham at susie@StringhamInsurance.com with any questions!

September 25: Board of Di rector's Meeting. 8 a.m. at the Chamber Office.
Local Golf Outings this summer!
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Monthly General Membership Meeting - September 10
Join us on Tuesday, September 10, for our Monthly General Membership Meeting. These meetings are always held the second Tuesday of the month from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. in the Mokena Community Public Library Community Room (lower level). 11327 W. 195th Street, Mokena.

Speaker: Ryan Hesslau of foreverU

We are still looking for a sponsor for this event! For $75 you get your business logo on all marketing materials and you may speak for 10 minutes at the meeting!

Free networking event.

Be prepared to give your 30 second elevator speech! Free networking event. Click here to view flyer.

Would you like to sponsor an upcoming meeting? You will receive one month of exposure when we promote this event in our E-Newsletters, our Facebook Event, our Social Media posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and on our website.
Are you joining us?
LOCATION
Mokena Public Library Community Room (lower level)

DATE AND TIME
09/10/19 - 09/10/19

I will be there!
Take our Weekly Poll!
Final results in next week's E-Newsletter. Can't wait that long? Mid-week results revealed on our Wednesday Facebook Live broadcast at noon!
It's Back to School Week in Mokena! What was your favorite school subject?
Math
Science
English
History
Fine Arts
Recess
Last week's results:
If you were a Superhero, what power would you want to have?
Ability to fly - 40%
Ability to become invisible - 10%
Read people's minds - 40%
Super strength - 10%
The Mid-Week Chamber Check-In Facebook LIVE!
Check out last week's Facebook Live Mid-Week Chamber Check-In for August 7, 2019.
 
The Mid-Week Chamber Check-In for Wednesday, August 14, 2019. We talk about Super Hero powers, the August General Membership Meeting with guest speaker Gwen Sterk of Sterk Family Law Group P.C. Mokena Community Night at Joliet Slammers Curtain Call Theatre  performing the National Anthem, and Community Business Expo applications will be available by the end of the week!!!!
 
The Facebook Live Mid-Week Chamber Check-In happens (almost) every Wednesday around noon. Watch to see if your business is given a special shout out during the broadcast!
 
Be sure you have "liked" our chamber page so you don't miss out! Mokena Chamber of Commerce Facebook Page. 
Welcome to our new members that joined in the past 30 days!
11106 Front Street, Mokena
815-277-1092

8508 W. 192nd Street, Mokena
779-333-7915

16525 W. 159th St. #147, Lockport
815-712-6478

14701 S. LaGrange Road, Orland Park
708-516-2723

17715 Haas Road, Mokena.
(815) 485-7391

9755 W. 143rd Street, Orland Park
815-412-5360
Thank you to these members for renewing your chamber investment in the past 30 days!
New Resident 'Swag Bag' marketing opportunity for you.
As a member of the Mokena Chamber of Commerce you can be one of the first businesses to welcome new residents to Mokena!

When new residents set up their utilities account at Village Hall, they are given a card to bring to the Chamber Office to redeem for a Welcome Swag Bag of free gifts, including promotional items and coupons from Chamber member businesses, along with information about the community.

To participate in the Welcome to Mokena program, we just ask that you provide a promotional item for the Welcome Bag, and/or a coupon for your business.

To participate, we ask for a 12-month commitment in the program. In return, at the end of each quarter, you will receive the mailing addresses of the Welcome Swag Bag recipients who have opted to receive information from you.

The program fee is only $200 per year!

News from Lincoln-Way High School #210
Available for purchase at the Chamber Office!
“The 1926 Orland Park Murder Mystery.” Written by Mokena native, author, and historian Matthew T. Galik.

Copies of this true-crime book are available for purchase for $20 at our office.

Book description: On the morning of April 14, 1926, the Inland Steel payroll delivery was hijacked in Indiana Harbor. Later that afternoon, Will County deputy sheriff and Mokena resident Walter Fisher died in a hail of gunfire just outside Orland Park. That night, the bullet-riddled body of Santo Calabrese turned up on a Broadview road.

The exact sequence of events remains uncertain, but a jury was able to trace enough of the day’s violent trajectory to send Daniel Hesly on the path to Alcatraz.

Matthew Galik leaps into a drama of high-speed pursuit and mistaken identity that shocked the jaded sensibilities of Prohibition-era Chicago and plunged the town of Mokena into mourning.
If you would like your information included below, submit as either a Word Document, PDF, or a website link by 3:30 p.m. on the Friday before the week you would like it included. Reply to this email or send to chamber@mokena.com



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Melissa M. Fedora
Executive Director
Mokena Chamber of Commerce
11104 Front Street, Suite 1B
Mokena, IL 60448
Tel: 708-479-2468
Fax: 708-479-7144