SPRINGFIELD – With all-out effort to bring more and more manufacturing back into the US, the need for team members to consider the industry as
The bi-partisan 2025 Small and Midsize Manufacturers Caucus consists of the foollowing members of the Illinois General Assembly as of April 28, 2025
ELK GROVE VILLAGE – In Chicago’s western suburbs near O’Hare Airport is a village that boasts about its world-class data center and nationally-renowned manufacturing park.
TMA’s Advocacy Team visited with Mayor Craig Johnson, who shared some of the village’s insights and rationale for catering to businesses.
SCHAUMBURG – It’s been four years since the Technology & Manufacturing Association (TMA) shared with their members the results of their 2021 Municipal Questionnaires for mayoral candidates.
The 2025 election will be held April 1, and in total, 29 candidates responded to TMA’s query this year.
BEYOND PRITZKER’S NAZI COMMENTS….
Yes, Gov. Pritzker compared the Trump Administration to Nazis in his Budget Address. That red meat played well with the national media and “far-left.” But that certainly wasn’t the focus for progressives under the Capitol Dome in Springfield after the governor’s speech….
A House lawmaker said something interesting to me last year. He said when he arrived as a new lawmaker, he thought there would be huge coordination in Springfield among supermajority Democrats in each chamber and a Democrat Governor. After a while, he said, “I looked behind the curtain and there was no one there.” He was shocked there was no grand wizard planning in a coordinated way.
