(2) You have to be able to say “Innovation comes from the top down” three times without breaking up. Next Tuesday, October 24, at IIT the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce will cosponsor the Chicagoland Innovation Summit, which CEO Jerry Roper expects “will likely go down in history as one of the most important meetings in shaping the future of our economy and our competitive standing in the 21st century global marketplace.” Cosponsors include the Council on Competitiveness, a D.C. outfit that bills itself as “the only national organization whose membership is comprised exclusively of CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders.”
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2006: “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is offering up an election-time goodie to Mayor Richard M. Daley and his City Council allies: five Supercenter stores that would go into wards whose aldermen helped the mayor block a proposed minimum wage for big-box retailers like Wal-Mart.” (Greg Hinz in Crain’s Chicago Business)
