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Chicago tries to woo tech workers in Austin, elsewhere
Have a valued employee with roots in Windy City? They may get pitches online soon to leave you
By Jim Dallke – Senior Editor, Chicago Business Journal
May 28, 2021 Updated May 28, 2021, 3:03pm CDT
A new initiative is underway to help bring back thousands of tech workers that grew up and went to college in Illinois but left the state to start their careers in hotspots such as Austin.
The new threat to local managers, P33, is a Chicago nonprofit that's aiming to turn the Windy City into a top-tier tech hub. It announced May 27 a program that will target 100,000 tech workers in cities across the country, with the hope of convincing 10,000 of them to return to the state they once called home.
"Most people who left Chicago 10 years ago think Chicago has a very thin startup ecosystem and tech ecosystem, because 10 years ago it was," P33 CEO Brad Henderson said. "There are over 100 growth-stage companies in Chicago that are hiring in droves. That’s a very different Chicago than when they left. What we’ve found is they don’t know that."