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CTA, ACE host Trades Day for CPS Students
- Chicago Transit Authority, Nov 19, 2020
CTA helps provide a path for CPS high school students to pursue architecture-, construction- and engineering-related careers as part of RPM Phase One Project.
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CTA Red and Purple Modernization (RPM) Project Team, Walsh-Fluor Kick Off First RPM Construction Careers Networking Fair
- Chicago Transit Authority, Aug 16, 2019
CTA and Walsh-Fluor are hosting its first workforce networking event for individuals interseted in construction careers that culd lead to work on CTA's RPM Phase One project.
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ComEd Leaders Help Further Students' STEM Skills at Immersive Workshop
- ComEd, Mar 7, 2019
ComEd hosted students to develop their STEM skills and enhance their understanding of the fundamentals of energy, smart-city technologies and sustainability.
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Here's how to have a healthier work day
- Cassie Richardson, Aug 18, 2017
Focusing on fitness while you’re on the clock and off could help you earn healthy benefits
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Take Your Job Search to the Next Level
- Skills for Chicagoland's Future, Aug 10, 2017
Are you currently unemployed or underemployed? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by job searching? Are you struggling to find a way to get your resume noticed? Let Skills for Chicagoland’s Future get you back to work.
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Is working overtime sabotaging your health goals?
- Cassie Richardson, Aug 3, 2017
A physician offers 3 creative solutions for staying healthy at work
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CPS high schoolers get a head start on careers in medicine
- Cassie Richardson, Jul 29, 2017
Future health care professionals complete internships at Advocate Trinity Hospital
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A Tradition of Being Non-Traditional
- Ellen Lindsey, Aug 10, 2016
Maritza, a graduate of Greater West Town Wood Products Manufacturing Program, turns non-traditional skills into a great career, and looks ahead to growing her own business.
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Updating Your Skills: Success for Nancy at Greater West Town
- Ellen Lindsey, Sep 17, 2015
Proof positive that adult education works to get people working! Read Nancy's story of success, in celebration of National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Then call Greater West Town and start your own journey toward a career: 312-563-9570.
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Put Your Summer to Work!
- Ellen Lindsey, May 28, 2015
Greater West Town's Wood Products Manufacturing Training prepares individuals in 15 weeks for entry-level positions as skilled cabinetmaker apprentices, bench carpenters, machine operators, CNC operators, assemblers, solid surface counter fabricators. M-F, full time. Next class starts late June. Job Placement Services Included. Great careers start here!!! Call 312-563-9570.
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Opportunity Rolls in for Greater West Town Graduate
- Ellen Lindsey, May 6, 2015
Graduate of Greater West Town's Shipping & Receiving Program meets success on the job and in life!
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Taking a Drastic Turn for the Better
- Ellen Lindsey, Oct 22, 2014
Graduate of Greater West Town’s Shipping & Receiving Program tells about overcoming skills deficits, lack of experience, and lack of opportunity, getting a job, advancing in his career, and starting to dream big…
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Daughter-Mother Team Complete and Compete
- Ellen Lindsey, Nov 11, 2013
Greater West Town’s Shipping & Receiving and Wood Products Manufacturing Programs get you the skills to compete in today’s job market. Read how a mother-daughter pair took advantage of this free opportunity.
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Greater West Town: Connecting Successfully with the Woodworking Industry
- Ellen Lindsey, May 13, 2013
Learn to build cabinets and furniture, operate woodworking machines including CNC, read blueprints, measure accurately, and start a career in the satisfying field of wood products manufacturing. Study at Greater West Town, an agency that connects with industry.