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WHY CHICAGO? HQ & TALENT MAGNET

TALENTED LABOR POOL With more than 58,000 college/university students located in the CBD alone, Chicago provides direct access to a tremendous talent pipeline.

CHICAGO RANKS #4 IN THE COUNTRY FOR ATTRACTING NEW GRADUATES AND IS THE #1 METRO FOR BIG TEN ALUMNI WITH NEARLY 500,000 BIG TEN AND NOTRE DAME ALUMNI IN THE GREATER CHICAGO AREA. Wall Street Journal; Emsi, 2018

2 OF THE TOP 10 LAW SCHOOLS IN THE U.S. U.S. News & World Report, 2018

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ACCESS TO TALENT The Metro Chicago area ranks #3 in job accessability by transit and is comprised of over 9.5 million residents, 2.7 million of which are located within the City of Chicago. The city is at the center of the area’s hub and spoke public transportation system providing convenient access to the area’s talent.

650,000+ More than 650,000 people commute to downtown Chicago each business day with more than half taking mass transit

1,000,000 Approximately 1 million college graduates with a bachelor’s or higher live within one mile of a CTA or Metra train stop

3,000,000+ 3+ million working- age adults are within a 50-minute commute of downtown Chicago– more than 1.2 million are between 18-34 years old

U.S Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics; University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory, 2016

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