Location
Skokie, Illinois
23-acre campus for
- Early stage companies
- Growing firms
- Established life sciences companies
- Related institutional research
Facility features
- Chemistry, biology laboratories
- Good manufacturing Practice (GMP)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Specialized vivarium & formulation facilities
Regional support
- +30 teaching hospitals
6 schools of medicine
- University of Chicago
- Northwestern
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Rush
- Loyola
- Rosalind Franklin
14 community colleges
- Customized job training
- Continuing education
- Entrepreneurship training
Laboratories
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Fermi National Laboratory
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Workforce
- ~50% of the state’s workers are professionals, skilled technicians, craftspeople, or machine operators
- ~11.3% employed in manufacturing
- 56% with education beyond high school
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