January 04, 2013 By Kathy Bergen, Chicago Tribune reporter
St. Louis-based construction firm Clayco Inc. is moving its headquarters to Chicago, attracted by ease of air travel, proximity to clients, access to young professionals and the potential to land city business as Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushes ahead with public-private partnerships for infrastructure improvements, its top executive said Thursday.
Clayco Chairman and CEO Robert Clark and Emanuel are expected to formally announce the move Friday.
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www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120803/NEWS07/120809925/walgreen-to-add-500-corporate-jobs
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
"(Crain's) — Walgreen Co. will add 500 local corporate jobs in the next three years, the governor's office said this morning. “The new jobs will focus heavily on supporting Walgreen's growing online business and its expanding pharmacy, health and wellness services,” Gov. Pat Quinn's office said in a release this morning. The new positions, to be created over three years, do not include store-level jobs that Deerfield-based Walgreen expects to create over that period, the governor's office said. In addition, the drugstore chain will spend $75 million to expand and revamp a host of corporate offices in the Chicago area. The state of Illinois is providing a package of $47 million linked to the company retaining 1,500 existing jobs, the governor's office said. Walgreen has 5,000 employees at its headquarters and in surrounding offices, the release said. The Chicago Sun-Times reported the plans earlier this morning."

From the June 2012 Worforce3One Newsletter:
VETERANS RETRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Department of Labor (DOL) has joined with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to launch the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP). The program provides participating Veterans age 35 to 60 with up to 12 months of training assistance in a VA-approved community college or technical school program that leads to a high demand occupation. Applications are being accepted for the program, which will serve up to 99,000 unemployed veterans with training beginning on or after July 1, 2012.
A new feature has been added to DOL's career website, My Next Move, focusing on Veterans that allows the user to enter their military classification and see what civilian careers best match their skills. To learn more about My Next Move for Veterans, go to: http://www.mynextmove.org/vets/
For more information you can go to the VOW to Hire Heroes Act website at http://benefits.va.gov/vow.

Crain's Chicago Business
May 14, 2012 - Greg Hinz On Politics
Emanuel announces thousands of jobs in O'Hare cargo deal.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120514/BLOGS02/120519953/0/BLOGS06
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday announced the development of a huge cargo center on the northeast edge of O'Hare International Airport, a facility he said would create thousands of jobs.
In a press conference with Aeroterm LLC, the mayor said an agreement has been reached on a deal in which it will develop a $200 million cargo facility on 65 acres area near Johnson Road and Patton Drive, not too far from a recently opened new runway.
. . . Mr. Emanuel said the project would create 1,200 construction jobs and 1,200 permanent, on-site cargo jobs that would spur another 10,000 related positions throughout the Chicago area. . . .