{"id":273855,"date":"2010-02-03T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/blog\/101-blog-posts\/649-senate-commerce-committee-to-hold-hearing-to-promote-investment-to-keep-and-create-jobs-in-illinois"},"modified":"2010-02-03T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:20:36","slug":"senate-commerce-committee-to-hold-hearing-to-promote-investment-to-keep-and-create-jobs-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273855","title":{"rendered":"Senate Commerce Committee to Hold Hearing to Promote Investment to Keep and Create Jobs in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p>What: The Illinois Senate Commerce Committee is holding a special subject-matter hearing to promote venture capital and private equity investing in startup, small and medium sized companies to keep and create jobs in Illinois. Committee Chair Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) has arranged for business leaders, professional organizations and other experts to address the committee. <\/p>\n<p>Who: Witnesses include representatives from the Illinois Venture Capital Association, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Council of State Governments <font face=\"Courier New\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Courier New\" size=\"2\">\u2013<\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\"> Midwest, investment firms OCA Ventures and Illinois Ventures, the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO), and successful entrepreneurs from various sectors across Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>[important color=red title=Information]<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Where:<\/font><\/strong> James R. Thompson Center<br \/>\nRoom 16-504<br \/>\nChicago, IL 60601<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">When:<\/font><\/strong> Thursday, February 4, 2010<br \/>\n10:00 AM-12:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span>[\/important]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: The Illinois Senate Commerce Committee is holding a special subject-matter hearing to promote venture capital and private equity investing in startup, small and medium sized companies to keep and create jobs in Illinois. Committee Chair Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) has arranged for business leaders, professional organizations and other experts to address the committee. Who: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}