Make City Mentions + Hatchery Headlines
New Make City Move-ins + Expansion News
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The entrepreneurial atmosphere in the halls of Make City and The Hatchery is always apparent. Here are some of the innovative ways small businesses working out of Make City and The Hatchery are growing and supporting their employees and their communities. |
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Expansion News
Victory Dance Foods
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WGN Around Town
The Hatchery Chicago
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Victory Dance Foods, a tenant in Make City and active member of The Hatchery, has continued its nationwide expansion with a recent launch in the iconic health foods store Erewhon in California. Learn more about Victory Dance Foods.
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WGN's Around Town segment recently visited The Hatchery! The crew met and featured 5 businesses housed in The Hatchery and spoke with Natalie Shmulik, CEO of The Hatchery. Watch the Around Town segments.
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New Make City Move-in
Good Pepper
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New Make City Move-in
Zoe Rain Photography
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Good Pepper, a Make City tenant who recently moved into their own space after subleasing, creates engaging digital content for food and beverage brands. Learn more about Good Pepper.
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Zoe Rain Photography, a Make City tenant who recently moved into their own space after subleasing, is a commercial photographer and filmmaker. Learn more.
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New Make City Move-in
Varca, A Bridal Atelier
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New Make City Move-in
Zefiro
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Varca, A Bridal Atelier, recently moved into Make City. Varca creates custom and collection made-to-measure luxury gowns, jumpsuits, and accessories for brides. Learn more about Varca.
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Zefiro, a new member of ICNC's Make City community, is Chicago's first zero waste store that provides eco-friendly plastic alternatives. Learn more about Zefiro.
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New Make City Move-in
Jeglova Creative Collective
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New Make City Move-in
Verena Solutions
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Jeglova Creative Collective, a new tenant in Make City, is a woman-owned and operated vintage industrial restoration company. Co-founder Anna Jeglova is also a photographer and desktop publisher. Learn more.
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Verena Solutions, who recently moved into Make City, works to create safer, more ergonomic solutions for the dental and health spaces. They create products, provide contract design support, and sell PPE. Learn more about Verena Solutions.
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The Illinois Small Business Development Center at ICNC
Upcoming Entrepreneurship Education Webinars
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The Illinois Small Business Development Center at ICNC recommends joining the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for upcoming webinars! Learn more about the Illinois SBDC at ICNC here and the IL SBDC International Trade Center here.
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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program
October 15th at 10:00 AM
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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a program for small businesses that links learning to action. Through the program, participants will gain practical skills in topics such as negotiation, marketing, and employee management that can immediately be put into action. In addition, you will receive the tools and professional support to develop a strategic and customized growth plan that will take their business to the next level.
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International E-Commerce and Social Media Marketing Boot Camp
(5-Part Series)
October 16th - 30th at 1:00 PM
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This program will continue with its one-hour webinars, every Friday through October 30th, that will help companies to recover revenue after COVID disruption by expanding their sales internationally using E-Commerce platforms. The program will help companies identify new markets and additional revenue streams to rebuild their business without heavy cost. |
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Commercial Insurance for Manufacturing Businesses
October 20th at 12:00 PM
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Join us for a presentation on Commercial Insurance For Manufacturing Businesses. Our speaker will be addressing why cyber liability insurance is more important now than ever before for all businesses, how to use your policies to free up cashflow in your business, and how being proactive in the management of your business can save you money, not just on your insurance premiums, but on other costs as well.
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Starting Your Business in Illinois
October 28th at 3:00 PM
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Understand the basic elements of starting a business in Illinois. Session will also touch on elements of entrepreneurship. Additionally, The Grant Accountability and Transparency Act Pre-Award information will help you prepare to quickly act on Notice Of Funding Opportunities. This workshop will cover basic registration requirements for submitting a grant application to the state of Illinois. Fiscal and administrative risk assessments, which are required prior to grant awards, also are covered. The workshop will not provide grant writing advice nor does it address existing or future grant opportunities. |
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Upcoming Virtual Food Workshops with The Hatchery Chicago |
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The Hatchery, a collaboration between ICNC and Accion Chicago to bring education, capital, and support to the Chicagoland food entrepreneur community, has upcoming food workshops.
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Are you ready to hire staff but lack the time to screen resumes? Our workforce development department can assist you! Learn more.
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The State of Illinois requires all Illinois employers to provide sexual harassment prevention training by December 31, 2020 and annually thereafter under the Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA). Learn more about the IHRA.
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ICNC's Workforce Development Team helps local people find local jobs. Visit our job board to see all available opportunities.
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The Workforce Development Team at ICNC works every day to provide quality and streamlined services that connect a skilled and qualified workforce with employment, as well as a variety of labor market services to meet the needs of local businesses.To discuss your HR needs, please contact Nancy or Priscilla in our Workforce Development Department!
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COVID-19 Resources + Funding Opportunities |
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Our mission to support Chicago's small businesses and the West Side community that we are a part of is and always will be our top priority. We've created a COVID-19 Resources webpage that is updated daily and includes funding opportunities, employment support, food access, small business resources, online training opportunities, how manufacturing businesses can support first responders, and more. |
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Accion, our partner in The Hatchery, has created an emergency capital webpage with the most up-to-date information on small business grant and loan opportunities.
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Grow Your Business @ Make City + The Hatchery |
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Make City - 320 N. Damen Ave. |
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The Hatchery - 135 N. Kedzie Ave. |
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ICNC's Make City incubator offers a thriving entrepreneurial community and immediate access to ICNC's advising, export, and advocacy services alongside 100 other small, modern urban manufacturing businesses. ICNC supports small businesses and the West Side community through incubation, advocacy, and advising. |
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The Hatchery is a non-profit food and beverage incubator dedicated to helping local entrepreneurs build and grow successful businesses through cutting-edge kitchen facilities, entrepreneurship curriculum, partnerships with generous corporate sponsors and foundations to create local job opportunities and accelerate local economic growth. |
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The Illinois Small Business Development Center International Trade Center 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). Reasonable accomodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Please contact the center at (312)433-2373.
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