The Climate Works Pre-Apprenticeship Program offers paid training and support services to help residents enter the building trades.

A measure in the General Assembly would permit cosmetology and barber apprenticeships as a pathway to a license.

Dominic Watson and Nate Robinson discuss CAPWorks Trade Career Discovery Day with The Springfield Project at CAP 1908.

Pre-apprenticeship programs in Illinois have enrolled over 5,800 participants since 2017, with women and minorities making up a disproportionately large share of enrollees Black apprentices have ...

A free training program aimed at preparing people for union apprenticeship is expanding into Kane County with a location in Aurora. HIRE360, partnering with Painters District Council No. 30 and the ...

The Illinois Pork Producers Association has established a new livestock apprenticeship program through the United State Department of Labor and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity ...

(The Center Square) – Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced Monday that they awarded more than $17 million in state taxpayer funds to 39 ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) awarded more than $2 million to four pre-apprenticeship programs in Central ...

As the labor market evolves, Illinois is looking to develop a workforce ready to meet the state’s future economic demands. In Kane County, state funding is enabling the expansion of preapprenticeship ...

Women and people of color are now the two fastest-growing groups in Illinois’ construction workforce, a shift researchers link to investments in pre-apprenticeship programs. The findings come from a ...