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Founded in 1951, Fragomen Worldwide is recognized as the world's leading immigration services provider. With practice groups dedicated to addressing the most critical aspects of immigration today and technological and human resources targeted at meeting strategic corporate needs, Fragomen offers unique value-for-money to its clients. Operating in 40 locations worldwide—including Chicago and Toronto—Fragomen provides comprehensive immigration services for short- and long-term international assignments, permanent transfers and the local hire of foreign workers. Furthermore, their knowledge of international legal, regulatory and policy issues allows them to provide clients with strategic advice and effective and efficient immigration solutions to assist them in achieving and maintaining a competitive edge in the global marketplace.
For more information about Fragomen Worldwide, please contact Cynthia Shearn at cshearn@fragomen.com, +1 312 499 2818 https://www.fragomen.com/ 
Blistex was founded in 1947 as a small, family-run company in the business of developing and marketing lip care products, primarily in the United States. Our objectives in those days were to create quality products, achieve consistent growth and become an innovative leader in lip care.
The pursuit of quality and customer service led us in 1967 to create our research and development facilities, as well as build our own manufacturing and corporate headquarters complex in Oak Brook, Illinois. We entered a larger facility in 1978 and are currently in the process of expansion which has enabled us to have pinpoint control of every phase of our business from product formulation and testing to manufacturing and marketing. Over the years, consistent growth was fueled by constant innovation in the Blistex product line. New products were added and existing products improved as Blistex moved into worldwide lip and health care markets. Blistex entered the Canadian market in 1950, and has been successful in achieving a #1 market position in lip care (Blistex brand) and handcreams (Glysomed). The Canadian retail trade is served by an energetic staff in Mississauga. http://www.blistex.com/ 
Aux Sable is a significant player in North America’s midstream gas processing business, with facilities and pipelines strategically placed in some of the continent's most active shale positions, providing access to its most attractive natural gas and natural gas liquids markets. Throughout our thirteen year history, Aux Sable has and continues to deliver outstanding safety, environmental and operating results. The company continually strives to meet high standards in these areas, to comply with appropriate financial and regulatory controls, and to be a responsible participant in the local communities where it has operations. The Aux Sable companies are private companies. In the United States they are owned by Enbridge, Veresen and Williams Partners. Aux Sable Canada is owned by Enbridge and Veresen.
http://www.auxsable.com/ 
Frontier Supply Chain Solutions Inc. is a privately-held, full service provider of Logistics, Trade Consulting and U.S. & Canadian Customs Services. By combining the strengths in these fields, Frontier is able to create complete North American supply chain solutions for all businesses, no matter their size or industry. Frontier is dedicated to working with businesses to reduce costs by creating dependable solutions for today and the future. We pride themselves on knowing all their customers on a personal level and working with them to create customized supply chain solutions that grow with their business. With strategically located offices across the United States and Canada, including Chicago, Toronto, Winnipeg, Los Angeles and Seattle, all Frontier professionals have significant experience in the logistics and customs industry. We are also able to ensure simple and efficient service to all of North America.
http://www.frontierscs.com/business-landing 
The Consulate General’s Trade and Investment section promotes business development, investment and offers advisory services to Canadian companies looking to build their export business in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and parts of western Iowa and northwestern Indiana. It also works with U.S. companies to assist with out-sourcing, cooperation, alliances and/or direct investment.
Our Political Economic and Public Affairs section assists visiting Canadian artists, promotes Canadian studies in Midwestern colleges, informs American students about higher education opportunities in Canada, and provides consular services to Canadians working or traveling in the region. http://can-am.gc.ca/chicago/ 
Québec established its Midwest representation more than 30 years ago in a territory comprising 12 states that stretch from Ohio in the east, to North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas in the west. With such major urban centers as Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee, the Midwest region is one of Québec's major trading partners in the United States. The Québec Delegation in Chicago seeks to broaden the economic, cultural and tourism links between Québec and the Midwest.
http://www.international.gouv.qc.ca/en/chicago |
BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider, with more than 2,300 employees operating in 16 North American offices and 29 worldwide, offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$538 billion total assets and approximately 47,000 employees as at July 31, 2014.
http://www.bmo.com/ 
MB Financial Bank offers tailored solutions to effectively manage business across the border with Canada. MB enjoys close relationships with government agencies, trade associations and correspondent banks to meet all of our clients’ banking needs. In addition to offering a couriered Canadian cash letter service from Chicago to Toronto, cross-border payments and foreign exchange services, we provide standby letters of credit to enhance business relationships and operations, as well as trade services in the form of commercial letters of credit and documentary collections.
If you have current or future on-site operations anywhere in Canada, and require local banking services, including Canadian lockbox services, MB can make the necessary introductions and arrangements to effectively and efficiently facilitate your business activities. For more than 100 years, MB has been helping our Chicagoland customers grow, manage and protect their financial assets. Our banking centers and employees are in the communities we serve, which empowers us to provide professional banking solutions to privately held, middle-market businesses. Of course, we also serve individuals and small businesses with the same respect and attention they’ve come to expect from their local bank. www.mbfinancial.com 
Equity Risk Partners is a full service insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm that provides global solutions to help companies and individuals manage risk. We review existing insurance and benefits programs to evaluate adequacy and competitiveness of coverage and customize programs to accommodate acquisition and other strategic/financial initiatives. We recently formed Equity Risk Partners Global, which is our proprietary global independent insurance broker network. It was created in order to provide the best service possible to companies with cross-border risk. We are also a member of the Worldwide Broker Network, which is the most prestigious independent global broker network.
http://www.equityrisk.com/ 
Lowis & Gellen LLP is a 50-attorney firm with offices in metropolitan and suburban Chicago, as well as offices in New York, Florida and London. We are also in the process of opening our sixth office in North Carolina. The Firm has an international client base including insurance companies, banks, and businesses in a range of industries and sizes. Approximately ten of our attorneys focus on commercial transactional practice, described briefly below for its relevance to director and officers' liability and employment practices liability litigation. The remaining attorneys focus on litigation, with a particular emphasis on insurance defense litigation. In the past five years alone, we have handled such cases in approximately 20 different states across the United States.
http://www.lowis-gellen.com/lowis-gellen/ 
A big business image, without the cost. Get all the benefits of a full-time office, without the expense or commitment. Work Your Way. A Regus Virtual Office gives you a great business address to use as your own plus someone to manage your business calls and mail. You can also use a private office at the business center of your choice.
http://www.regus.com/ 
USDTL, a leader in newborn toxicology, alcohol biomarkers and subtances of abuse testing, is on a mission to ensure the hardest cases do not go without resolution. We specialize in niche areas of forensic drug and alcohol testing. Our leadership will tell you that we work on the problem cases that the bigger laboratories do not want. Our value comes from over twenty years of outside-of-the-box innovations to serve our clients’ needs.
We are the laboratory of choice for customer service, toxicology questions, 24 to 48 hour turn-around times as well as umbilical cord testing, fingernail/hair testing, and PEth Testing. We offer the most comprehensive panels on the market. USDTL prides itself on cutting edge research and has made significant breakthroughs in the field of analytical toxicology largely funded by agencies within the National Institutes of Health. Beyond our own research, we partner with other researchers to support and promote advancements in biomarkers as objective measures. We are also the go-to laboratory for other forensic laboratories when they need expanded panels and unusual metabolites/analytes. USDTL proudly partners with many small businesses in the field of drug testing allowing them to expand their markets to cutting-edge sample types, such as fingernail testing and cutting-edge panel sizes from 12 - 17 analytes and above. Our value is our service, our people and our integrity. http://www.usdtl.com/ |