Make City Gift Guide
Shop Small This Holiday Season
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From food and beverage to hair and body products, the businesses housed in Make City offer great locally made gifts. During this holiday season, we encourage you to shop small and support local small businesses by purchasing gifts from some of the businesses housed in ICNC's Make City incubator. Browse the online shopping offerings below with options for delivery and pick-up, including coupon codes for discounts and sale details.
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Hatchery Headlines
Holiday Fundraiser + News Coverage
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The Hatchery Chicago Holiday Fundraiser |
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This year's Hatchery Chicago fundraiser is a multi-sensorial, digital event like no other as we explore the power of food & art. From product innovation to packaging design, and the future of retail, we will hear from food and beverage leaders and local entrepreneurs how brands continue to find new ways to engage with their customers. This experiential online event will celebrate our community's resiliency while raising funds to support The Hatchery's economic development programming. |
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News Coverage
Taylor's Tacos
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Documentary Feature
Justice of the Pies
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Taylor's Tacos, housed in The Hatchery, was recently featured on CBS 2. The segment covered the ways that Taylor's Tacos has pivoted multiple times to stay afloat during the struggles of this year. Watch the segment. |
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Maya-Camille Broussard, the owner of Justice of the Pies, will be featured in a documentary that will be shared globally next Spring. "FIVE" follows five female entrepreneurs whose work uplifts their communities. Read more.
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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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Accounting Basics for Entrepreneurs (2-Part Series)
December 15th & 16th at 1:00 PM
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This 2 class series taught by Kimberly Kirkendall will help you feel comfortable talking with your accountants, bank, investors about what your accounting records reflect about your business, or a business you may want to invest in. Accounting is simple concepts wrapped in complicated language. We will break things down into easy to understand examples so that you can read your P&L and Balance Sheet with clarity. |
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Starting Your Business in IL + Legal 101 with Lema Korshid
December 16th at 10:00 AM
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This webinar will help attendees understand the basic elements of starting a business in Illinois. This session will also touch on the different elements of entrepreneurship. Whether you want to turn your idea into a business or are interested in becoming an entrepreneur, we're here to help! This session will be co-hosted by Lema Khorshid who will walk attendees through the legal aspect of starting your business in Illinois. |
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Follow The Illinois SBDC at ICNC's New LinkedIn Page |
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The Illinois Small Business Development Center and Illinois SBDC International Trade Center have recently launched a LinkedIn page! To keep up with all exciting news and upcoming entrepreneurship education webinars, please follow along! |
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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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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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Workforce Development Success Stories:
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Food Handling Trainings
Since January 2020 the Workforce Development department had 30 people take the ServSafe Food Handler Certificate Training Exam and 54 people take the ServSafe Manager Certificate Training Exam. We have been able to pay for all tests (and retests) for our community members through our PepsiCo Foundation Grant Programming, which is a total of $12,172 – these trainings are required to work in the food and beverage industry and has allowed our community members to either enter the industry or remain in the industry with helping pay for recertifications.
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Hiring From the West Side Community
As we increase our intentionality of hiring community residents, POC, and women, our Workforce Development department is happy to report that in November, there were 4 job placements, including 3 community residents.
- Salaries ranged from $14.00 dollars an hour for a production assistant and a prep cook, to $110K for a Director of Operations position.
- 3 positions were with companies in the community and one placement was outside the community.
- 2 of the placements were people of color and 2 were women.
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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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