The Junto Institute ?

Most startup support doesn’t move the needle. So we’re building something that does, inspired by what Benjamin Franklin did nearly 300 years ago, when he brought together a group of entrepreneurial friends and called it the Junto (hoon’ toe). A group of friends who met every week for mutual improvement, philosophical debate, and community improvement. A group of friends who became catalysts, responsible for creating things that moved the needle. Things that have...

Chicago, IL

Email：apply**[ta]**to.co

http://www.**ejuntoinstitute.com/

The Workforce and Professional Development Institute ?

College of Lake County

Lake County Partners

The Workforce and Professional Development Institute provides training, consulting, and cutting-edge courses for businesses, professionals, and the community through its six areas：Center for Personal Enrichment, Client Solutions, Continuing Professional Development, Illinois Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Illinois Small Business Development Center, and Judicial Services.

Grayslake Campus - Technology Building, ***

19351 West Washington Street

Grayslake, IL 60030-***

http://www.**di.clcillinois.edu/

TransPORT ?

The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District is a specialized economic development unit for transportation and logistics. TransPORT facilitates commercial development of transportation facilities, offers financing tools and can help your business construct public-private partnerships. If you have questions about anything transportation related, the experts here will get you answers.

100 SW Water Street

Peoria, IL 6***

http://www.**rtdistrict.com/

Turner Center for Entrepreneurship ?

Bradley University

The Turner Center for Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit program located at Bradley University. The centers which make up the Turner Center for Entrepreneurship provide business counseling, technical assistance, training, and educational activities for individuals interested in owning their own businesses. We not only work with individuals in the community, but also with students hoping to start their own businesses. We also help existing entrepreneurs and businesses who want to expand take...

1501 West Bradley Avenue

141 Jobst Hall

Peoria, IL 61625-***

Phone：309-677-***

http://www.**adley.edu/academic/colleges/fcba/centers/turner/

UBS Wealth Management ?

Advice. Beyond investing. UBS offers financial planning and asset protection planning for start-ups. Today, trusted financial advice is more important than ever. As your Financial Advisor, I take my responsibility to provide that advice very seriously. That's why a comprehensive planning approach informs all of our conversations. It helps me learn all I can about you so we can address your most important priorities. What's more, if your circumstances change over time,new opportunities aris...

257 E Main Street

Suite***

Barrington , IL 6***

Phone：847-277-***

Contact：Mark Wimmer

Email：mark.wimmer**[ta]**.com

Http://www.**s.com/fa/markwimmer

UIC Small Business Development Center ?

University of Illinois at Chicago

Illinois SBDC at UIC offers comprehensive workshops and panel discussions for today's established business owners and those interested in starting a business. Experienced, energetic presenters show how to access information, get past barriers, ask the right questions and meet the right people. The Illinois SBDC at UIC Works closely with students, faculty and the community to assist entrepreneurs with market analysis, business planning, securing business loans, and obtaining outside equity inves...

815 West Van Buren Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-996-***

Contact：Michele Dorvil Abejule

Email：mdorvil**.edu

http://www.**siness.uic.edu/academic-centers-and-research/cba-research-centers/institute-for-entrepreneurial-studies/il-sbdc-at-uic

Unified Equity ?

Unified Equity serves extraordinary entrepreneurs, who are building promising B2B companies, by rapidly accelerating their sales cycle into Fortune 500 companies. The biggest challenge B2B entrepreneurs face? Finding their first customers. Not anymore. Our goal is to make the life of B2B startup founders dramatically simpler and more effective. If you’re starting a B2B company, we know one of your biggest growing pains is identifying and closing your first handful of customers. It shoul...

435 North LaSalle St

Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

Email：hello**[ta]**fiedequity.com

http://www.**ifiedequity.com/

University Technology Park at IIT ?

Illinois Institute of Technology

The University Technology Park at IIT (UTP) is Illinois’ and Chicago’s premier location for established and start-up technology companies to grow and thrive. UTP is more than just a space to work. The high-tech companies at UTP benefit from unparalleled access to like-minded entrepreneurs and researchers, IIT’s high-caliber student work force, funding assistance and the full range of sophisticated equipment and instrumentation on IIT’s campus including business services ...

3440 South Dearborn Street

Suite #212S

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-567-***

Contact：Daniel F. Marselle

Email：marselle**[ta]**.edu

http://www.**iversitytechnologypark.com/

VentureLab ?

VentureLab brings together the essential elements to help entrepreneurs succeed. Our experience is in forming, capitalizing and building early-stage companies. We divide our services into four elemental categories：Strategy, Capital, Team and Customers. We help our clients turn their vision into an actionable plan; access the capital they need; build out their management team, advisory board and BOD, and form strategic alliances.

2100 Sanders Rd

Suite***

Northbrook, IL 6***

Phone：312.953.***

Contact：Laurence Hayward

Email：lkh**[ta]**venturelab.com

Http://www.**eventurelab.com

VentureLab

Vistage ?

Vistage Chicago has been helping develop leaders and healthy businesses for nearly 50 years and has over 650 active members the Chicagoland area. We help CEOs and Business Owners become better leaders, make better decisions and achieve significantly better results. Founded in 1957 Vistage International now has more than 15,000 members, and is the world’s leading chief executive leadership organization. Our Executive Leadership Program provides unparalleled access to new ideas and fresh thinki...

http://www.**icago.vistage.com/

Waubonsee Small Business Development Center ?

Waubonsee Community College

Small business owners, both prospective and existing, can obtain essential management, marketing and financial counseling. We offer FREE one-on-one counseling and a wide variety of events and workshops to help make your business a success. Whether you are just thinking of starting a business,have been in business for years, we can help you navigate the challenges of running a successful business.

18 South River Street

Room***

Aurora, IL 6***

Phone：630-906-***

Contact：Harriet Parker

Email：hparker**[ta]**bonsee.edu

http://www.**ubonsee.edu/learning/business/sbdc/

Western Illinois University Small Business Development Center ?

Western Illinois University

The Illinois Small Business Development Center at Western Illinois University in Macomb is one of over 40 Illinois Small Business Development Centers and more than 1100 SBDCs nationwide which provide confidential business advising at no charge to prospective and established business owners and inventors. Training programs may have a modest fee. The Illinois Small Business Development Center at WIU serves these west-central Illinois counties：Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, Mason,...

510 North Pearl Street

Suite ***

Macomb, IL 6***

Phone：309-836-***

Contact：Greg Garrett

Email：sb-center**[ta]**.edu

http://www.**usbdc.org/

Women's Business Development Center ?

The Women's Business Development Center (WBDC) is a one of a kind non-profit focused on fueling the economy through entrepreneurship. As the oldest, largest and most comprehensive women’s business assistance center in the United States, we have programs designed to help individuals in every phase of the business development and growth process. This location also houses a Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), which provides one-on-one counseling, technical information, marketing a...

8 S. Michigan Avenue

4th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-853-***

http://www.**dc.org/

World Business Chicago ?

World Business Chicago (WBC) leads Chicago’s business retention, attraction and expansion efforts and raises the city’s position as a premier global business destination. A not-for-profit economic development organization chaired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and directed by Rita R. Athas, WBC fosters private sector growth and jobs through the advancement of a business-friendly environment that attracts world class talent. WBC advances Chicago’s position as a thriving location for busi...

177 N. State Street

Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-553-***

http://www.**rldbusinesschicago.com/

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility ?

Argonne National Laboratory

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is one of two leadership computing facilities supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The ALCF provides the computational science community with a world-class computing capability dedicated to breakthrough science and engineering. It began operation in 2006 with its team providing expertise and assistance to support user projects to achieve top performance of applications and to maximize benefits from the use of ALCF resources. This year...

Building***

9700 S. Cass Avenue

Argonne, IL 6***

Phone：630-252-***

Contact：Michael Papka

Email：papka**[ta]**.gov

http://www.**cf.anl.gov/

BizSpark ?

Microsoft Corp.

The BizSpark program provides technology, support, visibility, and community to promising startups and entrepreneurs at no charge. In order to qualify for BizSpark, a startup must be a privately held software development company that makes less than US $1M annually and is less than five years old. The program currently serve 50,000+ members in 100 countries across 6 continen***

Phone：312-920-***

Contact：Sonal Mane

Email：smane**[ta]**rosoft.com

http://www.**crosoft.com/bizspark/

Business Innovation Services ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Helping thousands of organizations for 28 years, the group at U of I Business Innovation Services (BIS) provides customized training services and technical assistance, as well as public workshops and certificate programs. With a professional staff of experts, we specialize in organization-wide systemic improvement from top management strategy to hourly worker skills. Our most effective role is to help develop the potential within each organization to achieve a culture where innovation and consta...

Warrenville Rd.

Naperville, IL 6***

Phone：630-505-***

Contact：Mary Rose Hennessy

Email：mrhenesy**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**s.illinois.edu/