Wanted: Edie Award Nominations
The Illinois Chamber and Illinois Development Council Give “Edies” to Honor Those Who Imagine, Design, Invest, Build and Bring Jobs, Growth and Prosperity to Illinois Communities
We are pleased to announce the Illinois Chamber of Commerce is again teaming up with the Illinois Development Council (IDC) to present our fifth annual Economic Development in Illinois awards – the Edies!
The Edies honor those who imagine, design, invest, build and bring jobs, growth and prosperity to Illinois communities. We believe it is important to take a moment and showcase recent accomplishments – especially when they translated into more jobs and economic vitality in our state. In addition, it is a great opportunity to obtain positive exposure for local businesses and communities who achieved great things this year.
We need your help to nominate worthy projects for recognition.
We have a general idea of what’s been created throughout Illinois, but business and economic development leaders like you know best what’s happening on the ground.
The awards recognize outstanding economic development projects completed in calendar year 2012 and will be given out in the following categories:
- Manufacturing
- Distribution/Logistics
- Commercial
- Energy
- Technology
- Other
We are able to recognize up to three winners within each category so we can award projects located in the City of Chicago, suburban Cook County/collar counties, and statewide. We’ve added “other” as a category because we know that some important projects that helped transform the local economy simply don’t fit into the other categories.
The awards will be presented during the Illinois Chambers annual meeting on Wednesday, June 26th at Chicago’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. Winners will be notified in April and invited (as a guest of the Chamber and IDC) to the awards banquet to receive the award in-person.
Please fill out the nomination form and email it by 5:00 pm CST on Friday, March 15th to:
Tom Wolf
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Click here for the nomination form. A list of past winners may be found here. We have tried hard to make the nomination form easy to fill out – asking for information that should be readily at hand.
All submissions will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Development Council.
The submissions will be judged based on a mix of quantitative (total private investment, jobs created/retained, average wages) and qualitative (unique contribution, creative public/private partnership, low environmental impact) criteria. To be clear, this is not just about the biggest projects with the most state incentives. It is an opportunity to recognize projects that have a large impact on the community. I think we can all agree that those kinds of projects come in different shapes and sizes.
If you have any questions regarding this awards program or process, please call Tom Wolf (312-983-7109) at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce or Mike Lane (217-528-5230) at the IDC.
