KANKAKEE COUNTY TOP EMPLOYERS TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

GENERAL MANUFACTURING LIFE SCIENCES CSL Behring...... 1600 FIBER MilliporeSigma...... 74 Dark fiber is accessible from multiple carriers. 2019 PLASTICS MANUFACTURING WATER Pactiv Corporation...... 229 Aqua Illinois system-wide capacity totals 30 MGD. MARKET PROFILE ITW Zip-Pak...... 45 Ring Container Technologies...... 30 INTERSTATE ACCESS AAF Flanders...... 271 Five I-57 Exits, including new Bourbonnais KANKAKEE COUNTY, IL Armstrong World Industries...... 250 HEALTH CARE Parkway interchange at Exit 318 Crown Beverage Company...... 142 Riverside Healthcare...... 3015 J.R. Edwards Brushes and Rollers Inc...... 130 Cigna Healthcare...... 1200

Edmund Allen Lumber Company...... 90 Shapiro Developmental Center...... 1150 AIR Greater Kankakee Airport is the Chicago Southland’s largest IKO Midwest Inc...... 125 AMITA Healthcare...... 1136 PUBLIC TRANSIT regional airport, with the longest runway outside of Midway VanVoorst Lumber Company Inc...... 83 Illinois Veteran’s Home...... 341 • Amtrak International, at 5,981 feet. As of 2017, GKA is also home to Dayton Superior Corporation...... 66 Indian Oaks Academy...... 364 a state-of-the-art, $65 million Illinois Army National Guard • River Valley Metro ITW Angleboard...... 160 OAK Orthopedics...... 120 Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility. bus service Electron Beam Technologies Inc...... 55 CHICAGO • Zagster bike share Vulcan Materials Company...... 33 FOOD PROCESSING USA’S #1 Fibre Drum...... 32 • Showbus rural KANKAKEE GROWTH METRO Ag Reliant Genetics...... 27 bus service COUNTY Greif Inc...... 25 at Greater Chicago’s IRON, STEEL & METALS INDUSTRIES Interstate 57 Corridor* Nucor Steel...... 500 CLASS 1 RAIL Peddinghaus Corporation...... 274 • Canadian National Shoup Manufacturing...... 200 Van Drunen Farms...... 720 • Norfolk Southern Stor-Loc...... 50 Del Monte Fresh Produce Company...... 312 Kankakee County is in close proximity to Midway Airport, • Union Pacific VanFab Inc...... 41 Momence Packing Company...... 300 which is drivable in 50 minutes and accessible by River Arctic Snow and Ice Control...... 45 Urban Farmer LLC...... 300 Valley Metro shuttle service, and O’Hare International ABC Coating...... 40 Silva International...... 171 Airport, drivable in 60 minutes. Belson Steel Center and Scrap...... 44 Gilster Mary-Lee Corporation...... 110 Dabrico Inc...... 20 Plochman Inc...... 86 Dawn Food Products Inc...... 81 TAXES & INCENTIVES CHEMICALS MANUFACTURING FutureCeuticals...... 80 J.R. Short Milling Company...... 75 Bunge Milling...... 24 BUSINESS INCOME TAX SALES TAX Heartland Harvest...... 20 7% of net income 6.25% City of Kankakee 8.25% TRANSPORTATION/DISTRIBUTION/LOGISTICS INCENTIVES FOR QUALIFYING PROJECTS BASF USA...... 200 ENTERPRISE ZONE PROGRAM • 5-year property tax abatement Sherwin Williams Company...... 171 In Kankakee County, enterprise zones provide valuable Dow Chemical Company...... 60 • Sales tax exemption on building materials tools that enable business to invest, grow and hire. Sun Chemical Corporation...... 50 • Free/discounted building permits Together, our community’s two enterprise zones have seen W.W. Henry Company LP...... 40 • Investment tax credit Hubergroup USA...... 20 the addition of nearly 6,500 jobs, as well as, more than $1 • Machinery/equipment sales tax exemption Baker and Taylor...... 540 billion in capital investment in more than 250 projects. • Utility tax exemption OTHER DHL...... 152 Olivet Nazarene University...... 550 Kmart Distribution Center...... 143 Kankakee Community College...... 444 XPO Logistics...... 141 Kankakee Nursery...... 128 Hoekstra Transportation...... 125 K.B. Cores...... 125 A.N. Webber Inc...... 116 For available property information or custom data drill-downs The Daily Journal...... 116 Vision Logistics...... 100 for local workforce readiness, wages, demographics, consumer Aqua Illinois...... 103 Pepsi Beverages Company...... 64 trends, cost of doing business, cost of living, recent expansions ECONOMIC ALLIANCE Illinois Army National Guard...... 93 Fedex Freight...... 32 and development incentives, please contact the Alliance office. OF KANKAKEE COUNTY E2i Inc. (Systems Engineering)...... 44 Swift Transportation...... 25 *Area Development magazine currently ranks the Kankakee MSA #1 among 394 metros nationwide in year-over-year growth. Ranking is based on employment, gross metro product and earnings. Monical Pizza Corporation...... 39 Bold indicates headquarters location. 2nd Edition June 2019 LABOR FORCE & JOBS LEADING LOCAL INDICATORS EDUCATION & TRAINING

qualified workers for EDF Renewable Energy’s local Pilot 1/29/2019 LABOR FORCE & JOBSPage 4 ADDED 2018 OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY Hill and Kelly Creek wind farms. KCC’s renewable energy Civilian Labor Force YOY Jobs Added With more than 140 fields of study and enrollment 60K 3500 programming is housed at the newly completed Advanced #8 of more than 5,000, ONU is ranked as one of the Best Technology Education Center. Colleges for 2018 by “U.S. News & World Report.” This is the Bourbonnais university’s 13th consecutive year for 59K KANKAKEE AREA CAREER CENTER 3000 IN USA inclusion on this prestigious list. KACC aims to meet the vocational/ technical education COST OF needs of the regional high school students. The 58K DOING underlying function of the career center is to prepare 2500 BUSINESS students to select viable career paths and to obtain the 57K training and skills essential for continuing education and/ OF U.S. AVERAGE or the job market. 2000 COST OF LIVING INDEX IN 56K 92% #1 ILLINOIS GRUNDY LIVINGSTON 1500 SMALL METRO FOR JOB KANKAKEE WORKFORCE BOARD 55K The GLKWB is responsible for Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec & TECH GROWTH COST OF LIVING investing annually more than 2018 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 Civilian Labor Force Jobs Added Year over Year 1/1 ONU’s ABET-accredited Martin D. Walker School of $1.5 million in support of local Engineering has seen strong growth over the last decade, workforce training and services to enable individuals Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Illinois Department of Employment Security $1.7 BILLION now offering nine concentrations, including Architectural, and employers to succeed in today’s economy. The 2014-2018 MAJOR CAPITAL INVESTMENT Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Best-Performing Cities Index organization secured and administers a $500,000 Illinois Industrial, Mechanical and Software engineering. New Talent Pipeline Grant to provide on-the-job training for LABOR FORCE for 2018-19: Data Science program and Cybersecurity local dislocated workers in the process of securing new DRIVE TIMES KANKAKEE MSA GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT Defense concentration. positions at CSL Behring Kankakee, and coordinates mass Cook hiring events for companies new to the market, such as KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Amazon and Meijer. KCC awards associate degrees, associate in applied In 2018, the Workforce Board was awarded a $400,000 Will science degrees and certificates of completion. Through Lake regional Apprenticeship Expansion Navigator grant as Grundy its office of Corporate and Continuing Education and its well as a $750,000 Talent Pipeline grant to support the Kankakee Division of Adult and Community Education, KCC offers Transportation/Warehousing/Distribution/Logistics 30 MIN. County custom recruitment and training programs to meet Newton industry. 831,420 the specific needs of area businesses and industries, 45 MIN. Livingston Iroquois including workforce development. Work Kankakee is an initiative of the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County in cooperation with Grundy Livingston 2,100, 135 Kankakee Workforce Board; Community Foundation of Ford Kankakee River Valley; Kankakee County Chamber of Commerce; local and regional employers; K-12 and post- secondary educational institutions. Together, the coalition is strengthening Kankakee County’s current and emerging Source: U.S. Census Bureau, OnTheMap application and LEHD Origin-Destination workforce pipeline and aligning that talent with local Employment Statistics (Beginning of Quarter Employment, 2nd Quarter of 2002-2015). Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis career opportunities across our targeted industry sectors. TOP SECTOR GROWTH SNAPSHOT STEM OCCUPATION GROWTH 2014-2019

Industry Rank % Growth Total Jobs Occupation 2014 Jobs 2019 Jobs % Change Annual Openings KCC operates the Manufacturing & Industrial Technology Center (MITC), which imparts the fabrication; machine Registered Nurses...... 1,308...... 1,566...... 20%...... 122 tool; welding; millwright; and transportation, Professional Business Services 2 13.7% 5,800 Inspectors, Testers, etc...... 369...... 505...... 37...... 77 warehousing, distribution and logistics skills required by Industrial Machinery Repair & Maintenance...... 326...... 438...... 34...... 55 our area’s advanced manufacturers. In 2018, the college Health Services & Private Education 7 8.2% 10,600 launched the first cohort of its Registered Apprenticeship Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupation...... 328...... 417...... 27...... 57 program in Industrial Machinery. Management Analysis...... 113...... 199...... 76...... 30 Manufacturing 17 7.7% 7,000 KCC’s award-winning and nationally certified electrical Computer User Support Specialists...... 113...... 157...... 39...... 18 technology program, in part, prepares students for real- Computer Network Support Specialists...... 59...... 83...... 41...... 10 world jobs in the emerging solar, wind and geothermal Overall Employment 3 5.7% 50,200 industries. The program has begun to build a pipeline of Locomotive Engineers...... 59...... 71...... 20...... 10 * Among 281 small metros. Source Headlight Data Oct. 2018 Source: EMSI