Illinois Science + Technology Park

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