Chicago, IL - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
GE Health Care Financial Services
Largest Industries
Chicago is a major financial center with the second largest central business district in the U.S. The city is the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (the Seventh District of the Federal Reserve). The city is also home to four major financial and futures exchanges. Chicago and the surrounding areas also house many major brokerage firms and insurance companies.
Chicago has the largest high-technology and information-technology industry employment in the United States. Manufacturing (which includes chemicals, metal, machinery, and consumer electronics), printing and publishing, and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy.
The city is also a major convention destination; Chicago is third in the U.S. behind Las Vegas and Orlando as far as the number of conventions hosted annually.In addition, Chicago is home to eleven Fortune 500 companies, while the metropolitan area hosts an additional 21 Fortune 500 companies.
Newspapers
Traditional
Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sun-Times | Daily Herald | Pioneer Press
Alternatives
Magazines
City Guides
Centerstage Chicago | City of Chicago | City Search-Chicago | metromix | Digital City-Chicago
TV
WLS (ABC) | hi | WBBM (CBS) | WMAQ (NBC) | WFLD (FOX) | WGN (WB) | WTTW (PBS) | CLTV
Radio
WGN | WBBM | WMVP (ESPN) | WBEZ|| WLS
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
Leisure
Chicago hotels, restaurants, events, maps, things to do, conventions, business, hotspots
