1871 Invades Park City

We’ve been working hard to pull together an incredible lineup of industry-leading speakers for the upcoming  CEC’s 2012 Startup Forecast who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends . We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012.  Thanks to our sponsor J.P. Morgan Chase, the event is being hosted at the Chase Auditorium.

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On May 2nd, 2012, we celebrated the official Grand Opening of the new home for Chicago’s digital startups, 1871. Now, in honor of our 6-month birthday and in the interest of sharing more about the member startups of 1871, we’re releasing this awesome Infographic that the folks at Lab42 helped us create.

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Last weekend, Chicago-area tech pros came together with CareerBuilder and 1871 to hack out solutions to the more than 12 million people unemployed. Given there are more 3.5 million unfilled jobs, despite unemployment, attendees were prompted to identify and start to develop solutions to match the right talent with the right company and to help empower employment.

[Read more…] about CareerBuilder’s “Jobhack” weekend hackathon brought out over 30 entrepreneurs, developers, and designers to try and tackle joblessness