{"id":20213,"date":"2015-11-11T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2015-11-16T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:12:05","slug":"emanuel-calls-for-connecting-all-neighborhoods-to-job-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/emanuel-calls-for-connecting-all-neighborhoods-to-job-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel calls for connecting all neighborhoods to job opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lily Singh and Kierra Gray<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rahm Emanuel highlighted Tuesday how Chicago is investing public dollars to attract private sector dollars, especially in parts of the city that have failed to attract businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere you invest in either a skilled work force, transportation, public schools, parks, housing\u2026using those leverage points of public dollars [can] generate the private sector development alongside,\u201d Emanuel said in the keynote speech at the National Journal conference.\u00a0 Corporate and civic leaders gathered for the meeting at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The morning conference on \u201cThe Next America: Connecting All Neighborhoods to Opportunity\u201d focused on Emanuel\u2019s keynote speech and included a follow-up one-on-one with the mayor hosted by Ron Brownstein, editorial director of Atlantic Media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Emanuel calls for connecting all neighborhoods to opportunity\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/145680101?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Text story by Lily Singh, video by Kierra Gray\/Medill<\/div>\n<p>The schedule included two separate panels of speakers that followed reinforced the need for education and connecting business leaders with city college students and the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in people, investing in transportation, gives the private sector the confidence to move and bring jobs to the city of Chicago,\u201d Emanuel said.<\/p>\n<p>Investing in transportation has been a priority for Emanuel as mayor. After seeing a decline in ridership on the Red Line south of the Loop, it was shut down for five months to rebuild 10.2-miles of track as part of the Building a New Chicago initiative. According to the Chicago Transit Authority, the project cost $425 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took seven neighborhoods and created this Neighborhoods Now strategy. Aggregating our investments, giving the private sector the confidence that if we\u2019re putting our resources here, draft right along side us to make your private sector investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhoods that are part of the initiative include Englewood, Pullman, Rogers Park, Uptown, Little Village, Bronzeville, and the Eisenhower Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMariano\u2019s, another grocery store, is going into Bronzeville, the very place that we put in new public transportation, two new bridges and a new park district facility swimming and arts center,\u201d Emanuel said. \u201cThere\u2019s other things going on in the whole area of Bronzeville but it gave them the confidence of what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city is working to bring education and skills acquisition to Chicago residents so they are able to take advantage of available jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Brownstein began the Q &amp; A by asking, \u201cTo what extent is the growth that you\u2019re experiencing overall reaching to the South Side, to the West Side, to all the communities in Chicago?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel answered with a no and and an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the city, people will be paying $4,000 or $5,000 bonuses just to sign up a truck driver,\u201d Emanuel said. \u201cAnd so those opportunities exist but the skill shortage \u2013 gap \u2013 is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gap means some good jobs don&#8217;t reach out to people in all the communities,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe degree, the education, the skill is the biggest piece of getting every neighborhood [and] everybody in the neighborhood access to a thriving job market,\u201d Emanuel said.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel said the strategy is to have an educational plan post high school, making high school only a milestone in your educational journey and not the end goal.<\/p>\n<p>The recent Chicago Star Scholarship is a step towards making this plan a reality. Beginning in City College\u2019s Fall 2015 semester, Spring 2015 graduates of Chicago Public Schools and those that follow will be able to pursue an associate degree for free. The students must have a B average and test completion-ready in math and English.<\/p>\n<p>The job opportunities in Chicago have been increased in recent weeks with Motorola Solutions, ConAgra and Oscar Mayer all announcing moves of business to the city. Oscar Mayer is moving their headquarters to the city from Madison, Wis.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Cheryl Hyman of City Colleges Chicago said that there is more not just a skills gap, but an information gap as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m also looking to do in addition to working with employers like Aon, with closing the skills gap, is making sure that our programs are relevant, having the employers at the table trying to close the training gap, &#8230; to close the connection gap. I also must figure out a way to close the information gap,\u201d Hyman said during the first panel discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that there\u2019s 600,000 jobs coming over these seven industries that the mayor and I are focused on but does every Chicagoan know that,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cDo they know that and do they know how to take advantage of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech at National Journal&#8217;s The Next America: Connecting All Neighborhoods to Opportunity. 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