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Amazon search team in Chicago next week
Source: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...cago-next-week

A search committee from Amazon will be in Chicago the middle of next week as part of its hunt for its location for a second headquarters that the company says will employ up to 50,000 jobs.

According to sources close to the matter, the company will meet with local civic and corporate leaders, likely on Wednesday, March 21, and tour a handful of proposed locations in the central area of the city.

City Hall has imposed a blackout on any news about the visit.

"Amazon has been running a very careful process. We have respected the integrity of that process since the beginning and will continue to do so," said spokesman Grant Klinzman. "I can tell you that we will continue to make clear to Amazon that Chicago is the ideal city for its second headquarters.

But the visit has been expected by early spring, and Amazon officials recently have toured locations in the New York City area.

Chicago is one of 20 sites around the country and in Canada on the company's short list.

Among locations being pitched to the company are areas around the Old Main Post Office and Union Station, the former Finkl Steel land on the North Side and vacant land along the river just south of Roosevelt Road where the University of Illinois is considering building an engineering innovation center.

I guess that explains the geodesic dome Related built this week? If so, lets hope it has the desired effect on the Amazon reps!