MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
JOHN R. QUIGLEY, President & CEO
Dear Elmhurst Residents and Businesses: While striving to adhere to federal, state, county and city mandates as best possible, the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry has worked relessly (and safely) during our 102nd year of service to help ANY AND ALL Elmhurst businesses to both sustain operaons financially and keep their workforce employed during the health care and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. Since March—when the distressing depth of the crisis first revealed itself—our Chamber has advocated on our member’s behalf to assure that federal, state, county and city governmental agencies and elected officials understand the economic damage that COVID-19 and related public policy restricons have inflicted on the Elmhurst business community, not just our members. ECCI has both supported the efforts of and shared vital informaon from the federal government, U.S. Small Business Administraon (SBA), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Associaon of Chamber of Commerce Execuves (ACCE), State of Illinois Governor’s Office, Treasurer’s Office and state departments such as Economic Opportunity (IDCEO), Employment Security (IDES), Natural Resources (IDNR), Public Health (IDPH) and Labor (IDOL,) Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Associaon of Chamber of Commerce Execuves (IACCE), Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, DuPage County, City of Elmhurst and more. Our Chamber has promoted patronage at all Elmhurst restaurants and bars via our Chamber’s website, member e-mails, Facebook and Twitter social media pages, and display adversing in local newspapers. In response to the inial state-mandated shutdown on indoor dining last March, ECCI developed a special website page, tled “Dine Out From Home,” to promote restaurants and bars providing patrons with walk-in takeout, curbside pick-up, drive-thru and/or delivery services. The “Dine Out” page features the name, address, phone number, hours of operaon, both menu and online ordering (if an opon) hyperlinks, and service delivery opons for each of the parcipang restaurants and bars. We also joined chambers of commerce across Illinois to promote IACCE’s statewide ‘IL’ove Local campaign (April 11-18) to rally consumer support of all small businesses. Most days, a Facebook and Twitter post shines a spotlight on the good deeds of ECCI members, including promong the efforts of “essenal” businesses and encouraging e-commerce patronage of our non-essenal small businesses. In our Chamber’s role as a business educator, ECCI members receive near-daily updates on federal and state financial assistance programs available to small businesses and not-for-profit organizaons via e-mails, and that informaon is then uploaded to our website’s home page (archived in News under the Community News tool bar link) and shared community-wide via Facebook and Twitter posts. As a small businesses itself—yet designated as ineligible for Paycheck Protecon Program (PPP) federal relief finding—ECCI has felt the financial impact of lower member recruitment, lower member retenon and cancelled revenue-generang events and programs. Yet, our Chamber doors remained open for business and none of ECCI’s staff members have been laid off, furloughed or fired. We take pride in the essenal work that our Chamber has accomplished during the most challenging year of my two-decade tenure as President and CEO, and I trust we can count our your support in 2021.
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