- July 14, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The new CEO of World Business Chicago on Tuesday painted a rosy picture of Chicago’s post-pandemic recovery driven by four “industry sectors” that can be grown faster here than in other North American cities.
Michael Fassnacht identified those sectors as: health care and life sciences; food and agriculture; transportation, distribution and logistics and manufacturing.
“Then, there are other opportunities that we saw in the pandemic. Companies — they want like a second headquarters. They don’t want everything in one location,” said Fassnacht, who doubles as Chicago’s $1-a-year chief marketing officer.
“So we’re reaching out more and more to companies to encourage them to look and consider Chicago as a second headquarters for you. Like some of the customer care and call-center opportunities that we successfully convinced Discover Financial Services to open up [in a shuttered Target store] in Chatham. It’s a huge opportunity for us…