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Rauner Has Plan To Create Jobs

A new privately run and funded economic development agency is being formed in Illinois to help create jobs and market the state where the existing Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity comes up short.

Yesterday, Governor Bruce Rauner says that the new agency will be better able to market the state and help create jobs. By executive order Rauner creates the Illinois Business and Economic Development Corporation. The non-profit will be working with DCEO but won’t be sealing deals. That’s still up to the state. Rauner says that critics shouldn’t worry about transparency.

The group will be funded with private donations. Rauner had tried to work through lawmakers to do a similar thing. But Democrats had sought a 3 year review of the new agency.

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