Chicago Has Joined the “Family” of World Trade Centers
World Trade Center Chicago: Dedicated to making Chicago a place for CEO’s to consider.
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A Team of Specialized Professionals
World Trade Centers Association professionals leverage the connectivity of a vast network of World Trade Centers worldwide.
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The WTCA Brand Comes to Chicago
The Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Region constitutes one of the largest economies in the developed world, with 9.8 million inhabitants and a gross domestic product of over $640 billion, making Chicago a center for global trade.
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Our goal is to meet the universal challenge of American businesses, especially small-to-medium sized businesses, and transform them into better foreign traders through regional job growth and professional development.
World Trade Center Chicago is an important regional tool that empowers members of the regional business community to increase their trade by tapping into the World Trade Center Association’s vast network. World Trade Center Chicago’s mission is to create jobs by utilizing its expertise in trade strategies and institutional real estate investment and development in order to cultivate Chicago’s regional international profile.
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As one of the world’s major cities and a nexus of commerce and culture, Chicago is a critical component of the Upper Midwest. For the whole of 2020, public health-related and human events—a pandemic, protests, violence—have conspired to reshape the city in unexpected ways. But Chicago is far from done. It’s a survivor, and many […]
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“Some of Chicago’s biggest and most complicated real estate projects took flight in 2019. By comparison, 2020 is shaping up to be the year of the unknown. Rebirth of the long-dormant Old Post Office, zoning approval of Lincoln Yards and The 78, two multibillion-dollar megadevelopments on the river, completion of NEMA, the city’s tallest all-residential […]
Read MoreWorld trade without rules? US shuts down WTO appeals court
“Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call ‘the law of the jungle.” The United States, under a president who favors a go-it-alone approach to economics and diplomacy, appears to prefer it that way. […]
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