About Us


CWIC serves as the permanent home of the Mayor’s Chicago LEADS Initiative, which launched in 2007.

To make LEADS’ lessons and successes endure, Mayor Daley restructured the Chicago Workforce Board in 2009, strengthened its reach and influence, and transformed it into the new Chicago Workforce Investment Council, or CWIC. Built into CWIC are many of the features that made Chicago LEADS a success.

Click here to learn more about Chicago LEADS.

CWIC is a group of top business and civic leaders that meets monthly with its chair, Mayor Richard M. Daley.

The CWIC Board of Directors and staff combine research from CWICstats with real information about labor trends from Chicago’s key businesses. Since its first meeting in August, 2009 The Board of Directors has used this information to identify critical issues in occupational education at the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC).

The CWIC Board and staff have been working with City leadership to develop solutions to these critical issues, and ensure that the decisions of the Mayor and the Board are translated into action.

 

 

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