The Nest ?

The Nest is a coworking space in Peoria's historic Warehouse District. It is a shared work environment that combines the flexibility that independent professionals have with the connectedness they need. The goal of The Nest is to lower the barrier of entry to business by providing shared office amenities, as well as foster an environment of collaboration among individuals and organizations. The Nest is also home to ProjectRocket Science, a 21st Century Learning Lab dedicated to design, devel...

826B SW Adams

Peoria, IL 6***

Contact：Randon Gettys

Email：info**[ta]**nestpeoria.co

Http://www.**enestpeoria.co

The Warehouse ?

Lightbank

Founded in 2013 by Lightbank, The Warehouse is a coworking space for the tech community in Chicago. Located at 600 W, a tech hub in Chicago, this new membership driven space surrounds thinkers and innovators with other venture-backed entrepreneurs.

600 W. Chicago Ave

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**ewarehousechi.com/

UIC Incubator Laboratory Facility ?

University of Illinois at Chicago

The Incubator Laboratory Facility in the Chicago Technology Park (CTP) is one of the oldest and one of the largest biotech incubator laboratory facilities in the United States. The Incubator, formerly called the Research Center, is a 56,000 sq. ft. wet-lab incubator with three functional floors and offers 37 fully-equipped laboratories ranging in size from 400 to 1,000 sq. ft., many with office and storage space. Shared tenant space includes autoclaves, dishwashers/dryers, a dark room and cold r...

2201 W. Campbell Park Dr.

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-829-***

Contact：Kapila Viges

Email：viges**[ta]**linois.edu

http://www.**gger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/techpark/index.html

VentureShot ?

VentureSHOT Entrepreneur Collaboration Community brings together extraordinary entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses and enhance their levels of success. This community was launched and is run BY Entrepreneurs…FOR Entrepreneurs. We REALLY know the issues entrepreneurs face in growing their businesses and our vision is to help hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve greater success through collaboration with their peers, mentors and unique, powerful collaboration sessions.

744 N. Wells St.

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**traordinary-success.com/ventureshot

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

The story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 isn’t really about the fire. It’s about what happened next：A remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects and inventors came together to build a new city. Their innovations - born of passion and practical ingenuity - shaped not just Chicago, but the modern world. What started 130 years ago continues to this day. Chicago’s brightest digital designers, engineers and entrepreneurs are shapin...

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza

12th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Contact：Kristi Dula

Email：kristi**[ta]**1.com

http://www.**71.com/

Your creativity and innovation soars when you are around like minded entrepreneurs. We created the West Loop Launch Pad to give fellow entrepreneurs a place to：work productively be part of a community have access to additional support be able to learn what you need to run your business even better The West Loop Launch Pad is a co-working site designed to help you launch your new business

grow the one you have. Our fellow entrepreneurs in the Launch Pad are typically creative, innova...

813 W Randolph St

Chicago, IL 60607-***

Phone：312-879-9636***

http://www.**3launchpad.com

BLUE1647 ?

BLUE1647 is an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center focused on education (through classes and workshops), workforce development (through internships), business acceleration (through Hybernate), and economic development in technology and 21st century skills. BLUE1647 supports all forms of entrepreneurship from events, filmmakers, artists, engineers, and designers. As a beacon of resource through physical space and curated programming, BLUE1647 provides impactful individuals and organ...

1647 S Blue Island Ave

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**ue1647.com/

Catapult Chicago ?

Catapult Chicago is the uniquely collaborative start-up community located in the heart of Chicago's River North neighborhood. Catapult adheres to the values that are essential to early stage companies - creativity, ambition, collaboration and camaraderie - and adds to that seasoned business expertise in a world class location. Catapult's mission is to take resident companies' ideas to the next level by providing peer proximity, a professional network with execution experience, regular topi...

321 N. Clark St.

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-860-***

Contact：April Lane

Email：april**[ta]**apultchicago.com

http://www.**tapultchicago.com/

Center for Emerging Entrepreneurs ?

Illinois State University

The mission of the Center for Emerging Entrepreneurs is to encourage local economic development by assisting a wide variety of early stage businesses and entrepreneurs in growing and maturing through direct assistance, consultation and management development support programs to allow them to become viable business entities.

100 S Fell Ave

Normal, IL 6***

Phone：309-438-***

Contact：Larry Maschhoff

Email：ldmasch**[ta]**inoisState.edu

http://www.**ebiz.org/

Chicago Fashion Incubator ?

Macy's

The Chicago Fashion Incubator (CFI) is a product of Mayor Richard M. Daley's Fashion Initiative. In 2005, Mayor Daley recognized the broad scope of Chicago's fashion industry. He realized the huge impact fashion has on the local, national, and international economies. He saw opportunities for local job retention and creation, for cultural growth, trade development, tourism, and for business expansion via fashion. Despite Chicago's manufacturing sector, graduates from Chicago's internationally ac...

111 North State Street

11th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**icagofashionincubator.org/

Chicago Innovation Exchange ?

University of Chicago

The Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) is the University of Chicago’s new hub for multidisciplinary collaborations. We support business start-up activities and entrepreneurs converting research and ideas into solutions benefitting society. The CIE will bring together the University’s distinctive strengths in research and resources from a network of world-class entrepreneurship programs to drive innovation in a range of areas, applying scientific discoveries to generate scalable solution...

1452 E 53rd Street

2nd Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312566***

Contact：Kristin Barrett

Email：kbarrett**[ta]**icago.edu

Https://cie.uchicago.edu

Chicago Innovation Exchange

Cibola ?

It's hard out there to build a company on your own. We are building a space to support the faces and voices of entrepreneurship that we need to see more of. Cibola has the vibe of a funky nightclub, the technology of a wired office, the resources of the best private schools, and the members attitude of a lodge. We are dedicated to building companies of all kinds, with a focus on tech entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and growing both Pilsen and Chicago's entrepreneur communities.

1647 South Blue Island

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：773-542-***

Contact：Emile Cambry, Jr.

Email：emile**[ta]**ldcibola.com

http://www.**ildcibola.wix.com/cibola

EIGERlab

EIGERlab is a centrally located, state of the art, mixed-use incubator. It serves the region with leading edge business and engineering support services. The facility and programs assist in the development of a robust and diverse entrepreneurial culture through the collaboration of education, business and government. Focused to assist start up, early stage growth and expanding existing businesses, EIGERlab serves as a one-stop resource for entrepreneurs and innovators.

605 Fulton Ave.

Rockford, IL 6***

Phone：815-965-***

http://www.**gerlab.org/

Ensemble ?

Ensemble offers entrepreneurs a one-stop, All-Star powered "digital services suite" to plan, execute and benchmark their efforts from ideation through success. All at 20-40% savings. By Entrepreneurs! For Entrepreneurs! The “Digital Services Suite” is designed to materially increase an entrepreneur’s stand-alone odds of success, as we have “been there and done that” with scores of client case studies detailing current best practices in the industry to u...

Chicago, IL

Phone：312-600-***

http://www.**semblehq.com/

Enterprise Works Chicago ?

University of Illinois

Enterprise Works Chicago is a new initiative of the Univeristy of Ilinois system to provide access to resources and support to inventors and entrepreneurs commercializing technology through company formation. With a public launch in April 2013 for applicant intake, EWC will be fully operational in early summer 2013. Programming will include commercialization roadmapping assistance, cost shared access to professional services, SBIR/STTR grant writing assistance, dedicated and shared office and wet...

2201 West Campbell Park Drive

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-829-***

Contact：Kapila Viges

Email：viges**[ta]**linois.edu

http://www.**terpriseworkschicago.com/

Enterprise Works Incubator ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

East Central Illinois University Center

Enterprise Works is the Research Park’s 43,000-square-foot business incubator for early-stage tech firms. It is operated by the University of Illinois to help launch successful startup companies. The 30-plus startups that occupy the office suites and labs at Enterprise Works showcase the potential of innovation in our community. Most, but not all, have a connection to the University. Some have been founded by staff, students,faculty, while others have licensed technology from the UI. Ow...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/enterpriseworks

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Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation ?

Northwestern University

The Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (FCEI) was endowed in 2008 to help evolve engineering beyond the application of the sciences to the creation of businesses that capitalize on innovations. The gift was made by the James N. and Nancy J. Farley Foundation on behalf of McCormick almunus James Farley (EE 1950) and his wife Nancy. The center serves as a resource for students, faculty and alumni from across the university.

Ford Motor Company Engineering Center

2133 Sheridan Rd

Room 2***

Evanston, IL 6***

Phone：847-467-***

http://www.**ei.northwestern.edu/