SPRINGFIELD – Workplaces policies that prohibit drug use will be maintained in a negotiated version of a measure legalizing pot that passed the Illinois Senate Wednesday night. While the measure languished in committee for most ...
SCHAUMBURG – Over 30 mayors from the Chicago metro area heard from area manufacturers Tuesday morning how their industry is crucial to local healthy communities and strong municipal finances. Atlas Tool Works’ CAO Zach Mottl ...
By Zach Mottl, CAO of Atlas Tool Works Over the past two decades, Illinois has lost roughly 280,000 manufacturing jobs. And as those good-paying jobs have departed, so too have many longtime residents. Illinois has now ...
Friday, President Donald J. Trump took historic action to protect the American automobile industry, its workforce, and American innovation. Following an extensive review of the Department of Commerce’s Section 232 automobile report, President Trump today ...
SCHAUMBURG – As part of WIND AM 560’s Business Tour, morning talk show hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson brought their show to the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois Tuesday morning, May ...
Manufacturing is booming in the United States, mainly due to President Donald Trump’s economic policies, Zach Mottl of Atlas Tool Works said on Fox Business this week. Mottl, who also volunteers to chair the Technology ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12) and Dan Lipinski introduced the BuyAmerican.gov Act Thursday, which helps ensure that federal agencies adhere to Buy American laws and prioritize the purchase of American-made goods. Recognizing taxpayers’ ...
HENNEPIN, IL – An Illinois ethanol maker announced Tuesday that due to anti-business state legislation and burdensome international trade tariffs, they will not be building a planned $500 million ethanol facility. Marquis Inc. announced its ...
Financial forecasters sometimes share differing views. While the ISM Manufacturing Index optimistically reported a long-term manufacturing increase in March, Bloomberg looked to Federal Reserve data with a slightly different conclusion. The ISM Manufacturing Index reported ...
Legal opinions are starting to come in as to how employers in states that allow medicinal cannabis may choose to handle the new challenges the situation brings. From in a piece titled “Staying Ahead of ...