Areas Served: City of Columbia The City of Columbia, Illinois offers business loans to help create jobs and support the ongoing economic health of the community. Financing from this program is designed to help businesses that cannot get traditional bank loans, either because their owners are seen as credit risks or because the businesses have
Read MoreAreas Served: Statewide Illinois The Employer Training Investment Program (ETIP) is a competitive business grant program for Illinois based manufactures and service companies to facilitate upgrading the skills of their workers in order to remain current in new technologies and business practices. Participation in the program will enable companies to remain competitive, expand into new
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