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Illinois Contact Info

  • Contact Name:
  • Sharon Stead Galantino, Managing Director ,

    Siobhan Lysaght- Trade and Marketing Representative , Annick Briganti- Trade and Investment Representative
  • Address:
  • 28-30 Boulevard de la Cambre, Bte 2
    B-1000 Brussels
    Belgium
  • Phone:
  • 32-2-6465730
  • Fax:
  • 32-2-6465511
  • Email:
  • Brussels@illinoistrade.org

Illinois Demographic Info

  • Region:
  • Midwest, Great Lakes
  • Population:
  • 12.9 Million
  • Gross State Product:
  • $633.7 Billion
  • Exports:
  • $49.8 Billion (2010)
  • Labor Force:
  • 6.6 Million (2009)
  • Latest Unemployment Rate:
  • 9.2 % (2010)
  • Unionization Rate:
  • 14.5
  • Per Capita Personal Income:
  • $42,397 (2009)
  • Capital City:
  • Springfield
  • Principal Cities:
  • Chicago, Peoria, Springfield, Rockford, Champaign-Urbana, Bloomington-Normal

Illinois Success Stories

Louis Vetter Pharma International GmbH, a biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing company from Germany, has located the company’s first domestic facility in Skokie, Illinois. The ...

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Healthcare

    Illinois is the Midwest hub for the healthcare sector with 28 Illinois pharmaceutical companies listed in the Corp Tech Directory. Chicago is the location for important exhibitions and conventions in the medical field, such as the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting (60,000 delegates), the Chicago Dental Society annual meeting (40,000 delegates), the American Medical Association (headquartered in Chicago) and the American Heart Association annual show (40,000 delegates).

• Employment Pharmaceuticals: 25,200
• Value Pharmaceuticals: $7.2 billion
• Employment Medical Equipment: 8,800
• Value Medical Equipment: $1.3 billion

‘‘Fortune 1000’’ firms in these industries headquartered in Illinois include Abbott Laboratories (annual revenues of more than $13 billion) and Baxter International (annual revenues of more than $6 billion), which both also have extensive operations overseas. Other well known medical companies include Hospira and Medline.

Links:

American Medical Assn. (HQ in Chicago): http://www.ama-assn.org/

Biotechnology

    Illinois offers unequally opportunities for growth in biotechnology. No other life sciences community presents the same blend of research in and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, agricultural and food products, diagnostics, industrial products, and enabling technologies like bioinformatics, nanotechnology, genomics, and proteomics.

• Employment: 44,000+
• Number of Firms: 1300+

    The state is home to over 200 academic, government, and non-profit research institutions, along with some of the most successful international science and healthcare companies. Supporting these institutions is one of the world’s most educated workforces. This intellectual infrastructure drives the growth and development of new and established companies by infusing them with fresh energy and talent. There are over 44,000 biotech jobs in Illinois. 

    The BIO Trade fair was held in Chicago in 2006 & 2010 and will be held there again in 2013 and 2016. The event offered a diverse showcase of Illinois-based companies such as TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Siemens medican Solution Diagnostics, Astellas Pharma US, Lundbeck A/S, Vetter, Nanophase, Nanosphere, Chromatin Inc. and TAP Pharmaceutical Products.

Links:
Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization http://www.ibio.org/
Bio (national Biotechnology Industry Organization) report on Illinois: http://bio.org/local/battelle2006/Illinois.pdf
Argonne National Laboratory: http://www.anl.gov/ 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://www.biotechnology.uiuc.edu/about/about.asp 
Contact Information for Biotechnology Companies: http://www.bio-link.org/centersIL.htm