CUED
Center
for Urban Economic Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
Labor
Market Profiles:
Sun Gate Industrial Park/Northwest Center for Industry
Project Number: 297(2)
Report Date: August 1989
Author(s): Dave Ranney
The following is one of a series of six reports which develop labor market profiles for areas in the vicinity of 15 existing or proposed industrial parks in the City of Chicago.
The report below presents a profile for an area surrounding two of the 15 industrial parks. Sun Gate Industrial Park is located on Roosevelt Road between Central and Laramie. It was formerly the site of Sunbeam Corporation's factory. The Northwest Center for Industry intends to develop an industrial corridor along Cicero Avenue between Lake Street and Armitage Avenues.
Certain zip codes have been designated either adjacent to or quite near these parks as a target area. It is this area that is the subject of the labor market profiles included below. A somewhat larger area has been utilized to analyze labor supply since some of the data used is based on Illinois Department of Employment Security service districts which take in very large territories. This larger area is designated as the expanded area. The target area was delineated based on both proximity to the industrial parks and that area with the greatest employment needs. Need in this instance was based on rate of employment and income levels. Maps of both target and expanded areas are presented on the following page.
It should also be noted that the analysis to follow may have applicability to development within enterprise zones. While the borders of the target and expanded areas are not identical with any designated zone, the labor market information is still quite relevant to zones in the general vicinity of the target area. In this sense, the analysis below provides relevant information for policies in Enterprise Zones I, IV, and V.
This report is organized into four parts. Part I presents a summary and the conclusions. Part II shows the geographical labor market of the industrial parks. A computer simulation model is used to estimate where new workers in the parks would be likely to come from in the absence of any policy intervention. Part III presents characteristics of the demand for labor in the target area including its industrial structure and the occupations of persons employed by these industries. Part IV presents characteristics of the supply of labor in the target area. Included in this section are demographic, economic and occupational characteristics of the employed and unemployed residents of the target area.
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