There should be more focus on what Chicago's uniquely good at
Do you mean whining about how we deserve to be a tech/manufacturing hub but we're not? Because we're pretty good at that.
Do you mean whining about how we deserve to be a tech/manufacturing hub but we're not? Because we're pretty good at that.
(As a Chicago startup founder, I'll just add that I hope we don't become a "tech hub". A diverse business community is one of our biggest strengths.)
(speaking as a former Chicago startup founder)
You had some serious engineering here: Western Electric, Teletype, Bell Labs/Lucent, Stewart-Warner, Illinois Tool Works, USRobotics, Admiral Radio, Shure, Abbott Labs, Baxter, Rockola, Seeburg, Williams Electronics, Bally, Zenith, and of course Motorola. Motorola alone seeded lots of other small companies in the area.