“We started to make investments in the Illinois economy to help the Illinois economy evolve. We're starting to see the fruits of those investments now.”
“We want to continue to help train them and make then competitive in this global economy. And there is no better way to spend this money than on job training.”
“Its a 45 million dollars market in homeland security federal government has 29 billion dollars in product and services that they are spending on products and services but we need to make sure that Illinois companies are taking advantage of this - and they way they need to take advantage is they need to have knowledge of what is happening in this area.”