President’s Message: September 2013

 Dear Members:  I trust you enjoyed the Labor Day holiday weekend even if it include such mundane activities as catching up on laundry, doing some yard work or walking the dogs.     Addison LLC Redevelopment Project “Be it hereby resolved that the Board of Directors...

President’s Message: August 2013

Dear Members:   Thousands of American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) members—with Director of Membership Kevin O’Keeffe and I among a strong Illinois contingent—from across the United States, Canada and elsewhere convened in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from July...

President’s Message: July 2013

Dear Members: On behalf of the staff of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry, I wish you all a happy and safe Fourth of July holiday week. Overdevelopment Bad, But What? Let’s begin with the premise that all of us are against overdevelopment.  Or—in the...
June Presidents Message

June Presidents Message

    Dear Members:   If you did not stay up until midnight on Friday to learn if Illinois’ 98th General Assembly passed legislation to reform the state’s under-funded public pension system—and numerous other major pieces of legislation—you earned at least one less...
May President’s Message

May President’s Message

  Dear Members:   One of the major battles being waged in Springfield during the 98th Illinois General Assembly is a Senate Democratic proposal (Senate Bill 2) to restructure the state’s economic development agency, a.k.a DCEO (Department of Commerce and Economic...

April’s President’s Message

Dear Members:   With the April 9 Consolidated Elections in sight, it’s time once again for citizens across DuPage County to exercise one of their greatest rights as Americans by casting votes for their candidates of choice at the municipal, township, public school,...