News & Events

Business strategy can be a very large and overwhelming topic for small businesses. Many believe their pursuit of survival overwrites the need to consider long-term strategy. While this may have been true in the past, it can no longer be true in the ever-changing economic landscape that we are witnessing today.

To help hospitality businesses make ends meet in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Illinois Department of Commerce has launched the Hospitality Emergency Grant Program with $14 million drawn from funds originally budgeted for job training, tourism promotion, and other purposes. Grant funds are available to support working capital like payroll and rent, as well as job training, retraining, and technology to support shifts in operations, like increased pick-up and delivery. Deadline to apply is April 1.

Amid the market shock of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, Kankakee County’s small business community continues to innovate in a push toward recovery. Downtown Kankakee’s Happy Monday Coffee Roasters and local attorney and civic leader Dave Baron launched a creative collaboration March 23 that brings together the craft roaster’s custom Chiapas blend with Baron’s local mapping art.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding the Alliance’s partnership with the IEDC & restoreyoureconomy.org.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding workplace safety.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding unemployment insurance.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding community health.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding municipal leadership.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding Kankakee County Disaster Response.

COVID-19 information & resources regarding local non-profit support.