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119 rooms, located within walking distance of Chicago Premium Outlets and just off I-88. Amenities include free local calls, kids stay free, pet-friendly rooms and free morning coffee. Coin laundry, Wi-Fi and truck parking available. See their web site for rates and availability.
Motel 6 - Chicago/ Arlington Heights
All new rooms. Completely renovated Motel 6 from top to bottom. Flat screen TV's and all new furnishings. Located just off I-90 on West Algonquin Road. Woodfield Mall - 3 miles. Complimentary morning coffee WiFi available in all rooms. Motel 6 offers clean comfortable rooms and great service at the lowest price of any national chain.
CITY:Arlington Heights
All rooms recently renovated. Outstanding location near the intersection of Oakton Street and Higgins Road. O'Hare Airport - 8 miles. Allstate Arena - 5 miles. Complimentary morning coffee. WiFi available in all rooms. Motel 6 offers clean comfortable rooms and great service at the lowest price of any national chain.
CITY:Elk Grove Village
Motel 6 - Chicago/Rolling Meadows
Located just off Highway 53 North in the hear of the Rolling Meadows business district. Arlington Park Racecourse - 1 mile, Woodfield Mall - 5 miles. Complimentary morning coffee, swimming pool. WiFi available in all rooms. Motel 6 offers clean comfortable rooms and great service at the lowest price of any national chain.
CITY:Rolling Meadows
Affordable, budget motel with quality sleeping rooms. Centrally located for easy access to attractions, restaurants and shopping.
CITY:Villa Park
Limited service hotel located adjacent to O'Hare Airport with 24 hour complimentary shuttle van service, wireless internet, extended continental breakfast, fitness room and guest laundry. Rooms: 107, Suites: 8
CITY:Elk Grove Village
Muirhead Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast
Private Master Suite surrounded by nearly 800 acres of prairie, this Frank Lloyd Wright designed home offers a private bath, historical artifacts, hearty country breakfasts and beautiful views.
Muirhead Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast
Private Master Suite. Surrounded by nearly 800 acres of prairie, this Frank Lloyd Wright designed home offers a private bath, historical artifacts, hearty country breakfasts and beautiful views.
Located in the center of campus, the Hotel at Holmes offers the convenience of meeting spaces, restaurants, recreation, and more—all under one roof. We are also within walking distance of downtown DeKalb and a 5-minute drive to the NIU Convocation Center. The Hotel at Holmes is DeKalb's only high rise hotel with magnificent views. Did you know….The Hotel at Holmes offers 78 rooms and suites including three executive suites on the 15th floor along with seven full floors of hotel rooms? We are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Meeting room available for up to 2,200, NIU Huskie Den with bowling and pool tables on site.
North Aurora Hotel Inn and Suites
North Aurora Hotel has 120 comfortable, convenient guest rooms including King, Queen, Double and King Suites. Complimentary continental breakfast from 7 - 10 am every day. 24-hour front desk welcome center. Kitchenettes, free WiFi access and cable TV. Spacious free parking for up to 250 cars. Conveniently located right off I-88, Exit 117 at Rt. 31. Minutes from Chicago Premium Outlets, Hollywood Casino Aurora and the Aurora Transportation Center.
CITY:North Aurora
This historic building, a Colonial Williamsburg Revival, dates back to 1902. The Inn opened in 1988. It is decorated with antiques and collectables, giving the house a feeling of charm and delight. The Inn has eight bed-rooms, all unique and different, as well as several dining rooms and a glassed in Garden Room. Available for weddings, receptions, banquets, private parties, meetings, retreats and more!
A contemporary bed and breakfast located in the heart of historic DeKalb County. The private cottage has been newly renovated and features carefully chosen furniture, decor and attention to detail. Relax into the cushy softness of the luxurious queen bed. Settle into the soft, leather recliner or love seat and watch a movie. Walk outside and enjoy the coolness of the shade from the tall Maples and explore the lovingly tended gardens. The Parkside Bed and Breakfast is the perfect destination for travelers looking for a weekend getaway or just relaxation and comfort while on an extended business stay. Amenities include: Gourmet breakfast included, kitchenette, walk-in shower, complimentary Wi-Fi Access, office work area
With 473 luxurious guest rooms, two championship golf courses, a renowned spa, award-winning dining and entertainment, three pools and extensive meeting and conference facilities, Pheasant Run hotel in St Charles IL is the perfect setting. And, while you're getting that special spa treatment or enjoying a romantic dinner or play, your children can have a great time in our Kid's Klub. This special program offers supervised activities for children ages 3 to 11 years. Activities include playing games, watching movies, and making crafts to take home. Plus, every Saturday you can visit the craft corner where Mom and Dad can join in on the fun and make some seasonal themed crafts with their kids. Board games are also available for check-out through the Activity Desk.
CITY:St. Charles
Diverse selection of spacious rooms and suites. Amenities: Business center, exercise room, indoor and outdoor pool, restaurants, lounges, comedy club, spa, golf course.
CITY:St. Charles
1042 guest rooms, IACC-Certified Space to 2000. Amenities: Business Center, Exercise Room, Lounge, Spa. No leisure guests-corporate and association meetings only.
CITY:St. Charles
Complimentary breakfast, fitness center, high-speed internet access, leisure suites available, lots of extras!
The Quality Inn is ideally located one mile from historic downtown Sycamore. Your free continental breakfast is the perfect way to start your day! After along day, enjoy a refreshing swim in their indoor heated pool and a relaxing soak in the hot tub. Business travelers will welcome additional conveniences like free high-speed internet access to copy and fax services. The meeting facilities are capable of handling up to 25 people for events and banquets. Amenities include: Fitness Center, Indoor Pool with Spa/Hot Tub, Free Continental Breakfast, Handicapped Accessible, Wi-Fi Access, Business Center
Fifty-one rooms within walking distance of Fox Valley Mall and minutes from downtown Aurora, the Paramount Theatre, SciTech Hands-On Museum, Hollywood Casino, Two Brother's Roundhouse and antique shopping.
Located one block from shopping, complimentary hot breakfast buffet, evening beverages, and high-speed internet access. All rooms with microwaves and refrigerators.
122 guest rooms, Amenities: Business Center, Exercise Room, Outdooe Pool, Complimentary Hot Breakfast. Pet friendly - charges apply.
CITY:St. Charles
Quality Inn & Conference Center - Burr Ridge
122 room hotel. Indoor pool/whirlpool, exercise room, restaurant, lounge, guest laundry, local/airport shuttle & 7000 sq. ft. meeting/banquet space. Amenities: in-room coffee, iron/ironing board, hair dryer, voicemail/dataport phones & VCR.
CITY:Burr Ridge
An upscale limited service property. Free high speed internet in all rooms, free enhanced continental breakfast, lobby business center and a variety of room types including whirlpool & fireplace suites.
Radison Hotel Chicago O'Hare Airport
The Radisson Hotel Chicago O'Hare in Des Plaines is located less than two miles from Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Rivers Casino and provides spacious, well-appointed hotel rooms and convenient amenities, including a complimentary 24-hour airport shuttle. This hotel in Chicago O'Hare area offers you the perfect location near all major expressways, including I-90, I-290, I-294 and I-55, has plenty of parking space for hotel guests and is within walking distance of great restaurants and shopping. The Radisson Hotel Chicago O'Hare boasts a wide range of additional complimentary services to enhance your stay, such as a Business Center, Fitness Center and seasonal outdoor pool. Choose the Radisson Hotel Chicago O'Hare and see what sets us apart from other Chicago O'Hare hotels.
CITY:Des Plaines
This 467 room hotel features newly renovated guest rooms, meeting rooms and public space. Located in Rosemont, the hotel is two miles from O'Hare Airport, adjacent to the Allstate Arena and just minutes from the Stephens Convention Center.
Ramada Inn & Suites - Glendale Heights
This 82-room Gold Key property prides itself as the perfect venue for business & leisure travel, meetings and family events. Discover numerous guest room options and over 7,000 sq ft of flexible function space backed by a seasoned catering staff.
CITY:Glendale Heights
The staff at the Ramada Bolingbrook is committed to providing guests a level of service that is still old-fashioned and personal. Whether your travel plans take you across the country or across the street, you will feel at home.
Indoor pool, hot tub, Jacuzzi suites.
Full-service aiport property offering newly-renovated Plaza guest rooms and all those amenities geared towards the corporate business traveler.
Conveniently located near Northern Illinois University, offering attractive accommodations with a country inn setting. Kitchenette facilities available for long term stays. Many restaurants and entertainment facilities within walking distance. Meeting room available for up to 220. Amenities include: Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, 24 Coffee Service available, Handicapped Accessible, Sauna, Pet Friendly, Banquet Facilities, Wi-Fi Access, Business Center
Red Roof Inn Chicago - O'Hare Airport
In a terrific suburban Chicago location, Red Roof Chicago-O'Hare Airport/Arlington Heights is conveniently located off of I-90, just 2 miles from Woodfield Mall, 4 miles from Arlington Park Raceway, 6.8 miles from O'Hare Airport, 7 miles from Allstate Arena, 8 miles from Rosemont Arena, and near many restaurants and shops. All rooms offer free WiFi. Superior and Deluxe rooms offer microwave & refrigerator. Free coffeehouse-style coffee and tea in the lobby. This location offers premium channels including ESPN and HBO.
CITY:Arlington Heights
This is a newly renovated location with all new rooms, contemporary furniture, new bathrooms with granite countertops, a comfortable easy chair and more.
CITY:Downers Grove
119 renovated-room hotel, turn down service, 6 blends of different coffee, pet friendly, handicap accessible rooms. Close to restaurants, shopping and businesses. Conveniently located off I-88 Tollway.
With newly renovated rooms, this 100% Smoke Free Red Roof Inn is located just 21 miles southwest of Downtown Chicago with easy access to METRA commuter trains and less than 20 minutes from Midway Airport. We offer a great suburban location close to restaurants, shopping at Oak Brook Center and IKEA, and entertainment at the Burr Ridge Village Center. All rooms offer free WiFi, free local calls, and free long distance calling in the continental US. This location offers On Command Video with a selection of free TV channels, pay-to-view premium channels and movies. One well-behaved family pet per room is welcome.
Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel
Experience refined style where stunning modern design and architecture blend with impeccable service. Our 500 spacious rooms and suites offer imaginative & colorful décor. The 148,000 square feet of modern meeting space is perfect for all events.
Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago Bloomingdale
96-room all-suite hotel includes fully equipped kitchens, living area, complimentary breakfast and evening socials from Monday-Thursday.
Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago Lombard
Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago-Lombard features 144 spacious suites, equipped with full kitchens, separate living areas and high speed internet access. Guests enjoy complimentary HomeTouch Breakfast and a weekday managers reception in our Gatehouse.
Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago Oak Brook
Residence Inn Oak Brook has 156 suites with separate living and sleeping areas and a fully equipped kitchen. Breakfast buffet is included daily, an evening reception is provided Mon-Thurs, with appetizers, beer, wine and sodas.
CITY:Oak Brook
Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago/Naperville/Warrenville
At the newly renovated Residence Inn Naperville/Warrenville, we combine all the comforts of home with Marriott's passion for making every guest feel welcome.
Residence Inn by Marriott- O'Hare/ Rosemont
The Residence Inn- O'Hare/ Rosemont is a 192 all suite property located 1½ mi. north of O'Hare Airport. Each suite includes fully equipped kitchens. O'Hare shuttle service is complimentary.
Residence Inn Chicago/Schaumburg
Welcome to your home away from home, the recently renovated Residence Inn Chicago Scahumburg! Perfect for all types of travel; an all suite Schaumburg hotel offering three layots, studio, one, and two bedrooms, all with fully equipped kitchens, queen-size beds and sofa sleepers. Complimentary hot breakfast buffet, wireless internet access, shuttle service, Monday through Friday within a 5 mile radius, and Manager's Reception, a light buffet with beer, wine, and soft drinks, held Monday through Thursday evenings. The Residence Inn Chicago Schaumburg is close to Motorola, Zurich, OSHA Training Institute, FDIC, Learning Tree, and Comcast. Looking for a weekend getaway, our Schaumburg hotel is ideal, featuring an indoor pool and whirlpool, fitness center, brick patio, gas grill, and outdoor Sports Court. Minutes from Woodifeld Mall, Arlington Park, IKEA, LEGOLAND, and Medieval Times. Work, relax, and unwind at Residence Inn Chicago Schaumburg.
200 RV parking spaces, 110, 50 and 30 amp hook-ups, water and dump station. RV camping $15 per night April 1-Aug. 14 & Sept. 16-Oct. 30 and $30 per night Aug. 15-Sept. 15. Tent camping is allowed. Grills allowed but no open fires.
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - This Sheraton has 25,000 sq.ft. of meeting space including a 15,000 sq.ft. IACC-approved Executive Meeting Center, full-service business center, Union Station restaurant, and renovated fitness center with indoor pool and two racquetball courts.
Sheraton Suites Chicago Elk Grove
All suites property on 12 acres. 255 two-room suites with Sheraton Sweet Sleeper beds and queen-size comfortable sleeper sofas. Free parking. 5600 square feet of function space, 8 function rooms, 1st floor contiguous access The Link@Sheraton free to over night guest internet access. Lobby lounge level. Indoor/Outdoor pools. Full workout facility. Massage/Spa treatment available. Exceptional restaurant and Lobby bar, "Junipers" with private dining for 40.
CITY:Elk Grove Village
All 68 rooms in the Sherwood Inn & Jacuzzi Suites provide cable TV and guest laundry facilities. Walking distance to area restaurants and other amenities. Retro-lodging brings you back to days gone by.
CITY:Prospect Heights
69-room moderately priced hotel with easy access of I-88. Complimentary wireless high speed internet access, continental breakfast and other amenities. Business class and whirlpool suites available.
All-suite property just minutes from shopping center. Featuring full-kitchens with one and two-bedroom and two bathroom suites. The hotel's complimentary weekday Schaumburg area shuttle operates within a five-mile radius of the property making it easy to get to your destination.
128-room, all-suite hotel. Complimentary hi-speed wireless Internet, breakfast, laundry facility, indoor heated pool, fitness center, business center, dataport telephones. Free shuttle service. Conveniently located at I-55 & County Line Road.
CITY:Burr Ridge
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Chicago Bolingbrook
Each spacious studio site is furnished with a sofa bed, mini-refrigerator, microwave and a desk with ergonomic chair. Other amenitiies include free deluxe continental breakfast, free high speed internet, fax service, exercise room and indoor pool.
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Chicago Southwest at Burr Ridge/Hinsdale
The perfect choice for a fresh, restful stay. Newly renovated top to bottom, this all-suites hotel offers complimentary local shuttle service, hi-speed wireless, breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, business center and more. Convenient access to I-55.
CITY:Burr Ridge
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Elmhurst/Oak Brook Area
128-room, all-suite hotel. Complimentary hot breakfast buffet, free high speed internet access, laundry facilities, fitness center and indoor pool, dataport telephones, voicemail, free local calls, free local shuttle, meeting space, and more.
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Naperville/Warrenville
128-room, all-suite hotel. Amenities include complimentary deluxe hot breakfast, indoor heated pool, fitness center, room service, free high speed Internet access, free midweek shuttle service, 24-hr. Market Express, and more.
SpringHill Suites Chicago/Schaumburg
Stylish, all-suite hotel designed for the savvy traveler. We're surrounded by shopping and entertainment - Woodfield Mall, IKEA, Arlington Park Racetrack, Akoo Theatre, Grand Victoria Casino Boat and downtown Chicago are all a short ride away. All suite hotel with two layouts; a King Suite, king bed with a sofa sleeper, and our Double Suite, two double beds with a sofa sleeper. All feature luxurious bedding, a large work area, flat screen TV's, and complimentary high-speed Internet access. Special amenities including a pantry area with mini-fridge, microwave and coffee maker. Enjoy our heated indoor pool and fitness center. Complimentary hot breakfast buffet. Our meeting room has approximately 360 square feet and can accommodate 20 set in rounds and 24 set classroom. We also feature a board room that can accommodate 8 for more private events.
70-room property with clean and comfortable accommodations. Featuring coin-operated laundry facilities, remote controlled TV, Free HBO, SHOWTIME and ESPN. Free local calls
128 comfortable guest rooms. Complimentary hot breakfast buffet, free wireless high speed internet, pillow top mattresses in every room, iron/ironing boards, in-room coffee and more! Two meeting rooms accommodating up to 25 people each.
Staybridge Suites Aurora/Naperville
Relax in Staybridge's all-suite hotel designed for business, leisure or relocating travelers. Stay in a spacious one-bedroom or two bedroom/two-bath suite. Enjoy a complimentary hot breakfast buffet or have a midweek evening dinner reception. Located within walking distance of the Metra train station (commuting to downtown Chicago) and minutes from downtown Aurora. Surrounded by numerous restaurants and shopping choices. Close to the Great Lakes Center volleyball venue. Other features include indoor pool and hot tub, gym and outdoor sport court. 250 sq. ft. boardroom suitable for meetings for 12.
Staybridge Suites Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace
The preferred, upscale all-suite hotel in the Oak Brook area! Free bountiful hot breakfast buffet daily. Free light dinner entrée Tuesday thru Thursday evenings with free beer, wine and sodas. Free internet access throughout hotel. Free local shuttle.
CITY:Oakbrook Terrace
Super 8 Romeoville Bolingbrook hotel is located in the Heritage Corridor, convenient to Interstates 55 and 355 at Exit 367, and provides a comfortable, central place to stop. Close to O'Hare and Midway airports, and Empress Casino, our pet-friendly Romeoville hotel offers convenient accommodations near the Windy City.
67 guest rooms. Amenities: Complimentary Continental Breakfast, Pet friendly-charges apply.
CITY:St. Charles
The Super 8 has 42 rooms, some with whirlpool tubs. Complimentary continental breakfast, free local calls, cable TV. Major credit cards accepted.
66 rooms with hot tub suites, complimentary deluxe breakfast, free high-speed Internet, an indoor heated pool and spa, fitness room, free local calls and cable TV. Chicago Premium Outlets, Fox Valley Mall, restaurants, golf courses and other attractions are nearby.
Super 8 O'Hare is located on the northwest corner of the O'Hare International Airport (ORD). We offer Free Shuttle to and from O'Hare International Airport, CTA Blue Line train station, Allstate Arena, and Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Super 8 has newly renovated rooms with a focus on cleanliness and customer service. Dedicated, reliable complimentary high speed internet. 24 hour O'Hare shuttle service. HD television service. 6 miles to Woodfield and access to downtown. King, Queen, Jacuzzi suites as well as business king, and separate group floors available.
CITY:Elk Grove Village
Built in 1993 located just off the toll-way. Very convenient location with a friendly staff eager to help guests. Spa suites make a perfect weekend getaway. Amenities include: Indoor Pool, Free Continental Breakfast, Handicapped Accessible, Pet Friendly, Wi-Fi Access, Guest Laundry
Begin at Super 8 Motel with free continental breakfast, and 24 hour coffee. Also enjoy free local calls and remote control TV with HBO, ESPN, CNN, Discovery and The Family Channel.
Meeting space for up to 15 people. Free coffee, juice, bagel and toast bar. Copier and fax service. Suite wtih microwave and refrigerator. Pets welcome.
CITY:St. Charles
Microwaves, mini-refrigerators and jaccuzi's in select rooms. Adjoining rooms, roll-away beds and cribs available.
Super 8 Prospect Heights/Northbrook
Hotel guests will enjoy a continental breakfast, large-vehicle parking and free WiFi Internet. On-site fitness center and laundry facilities. This hotel has 120 rooms and is conveniently located off Interstate 294.
CITY:Prospect Heights
Sycamore RV Resort offers water, electric and sewer hookups on shaded and open sites. Picnic tables and fire rings are at each site. Some other amenities are clean restrooms, hot showers, laundromat, Campground Store, two fishing lakes, swimming beach, paddle boats, row boats, pedal karts, sand volleyball and more!
The Champagne Lodge & Luxury Suites
The Champagne Lodge is an independent boutique hotel featuring luxury spa suites that offer seclusion and privacy while pampering you with all of the contemporary conveniences of modern design. Private, irresistibly convenient, yet a world away from the everyday.
Breathtakingly elegant, lavish, and newly renovated, The Drake Oak Brook features traditional furnishings and timeless architecture. Stunning banquet rooms open to newly designed terraces and courtyards.
CITY:Oak Brook
Nestled in to the banks of the Fox River, The Herrington offers romantic getaways, executive events, weddings, corporate events, and riverside dining 45 minutes from downtown Chicago.
Situated on beautifully landscaped grounds featuring a labyrinth and hedge maze this 1854 Italianate country cottage is reminiscent of rural Tuscan villas and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Guests can choose from five bedrooms, with each room/bath combination offering a different level of amenities. The Homestead is ideal for small executive, group and personal retreats, a weekend getaway, an intimate wedding, commitment ceremony, renewal of marriage vows or other special events, bridal and baby showers, romantic getaways, girls weekend escapes, honeymoons, reunions with friends and family, and for business travelers. Our unique property provides the ideal setting to inspire creative minds and rejuvenate tired bodies. Group tours and catered lunches & dinners can be arranged.
Located in a historic 28-room mansion.
CITY:West Dundee
CITY:Burr Ridge
Just a 5 minute complimentary shuttle ride from O'Hare Airport. Oversized guest rooms, great restaurants, a complete healthclub with swimming pool, business center, and meeting/banquet facilities for 6 to 1,200 people.
Timber Creek Inn and Suites - Worldhotels
In beautiful wooded surroundings, Timber Creek Inn & Suites' friendly, lodge-like ambiance adds to the adjoining state-of-the-art convention center. AAA diamond rated this full-service hotel provides big city amenities and is an ideal choice for business, wedding or leisure travelers. Choose from 100 relaxing, spacious guestrooms and suites. Enjoy a full range of lavish comforts, including plush beds, luxury bedding and 24-hour room service. Each well-appointed guest room or suite comes complete with a microwave, mini-refrigerator, cable satellite television and high-speed internet access. After a restful night enjoy a full decadent hot breakfast buffet, swim in the indoor heated swimming pool or work out in the 24-hour exercise facility. Relax again in the sumptuous spa or enjoy live entertainment on the outdoor deck. Step into the great outdoors and you'll find sand volleyball courts, fire pits, and a plethora of hiking trails crisscrossing the woodland grounds. On-site restaurant bar & grill available for your dining convenience. Selected suites add the extra indulgence of whirlpool alcoves. Conveniently located off State Route 34 just minutes from top-rated antique shopping, Silver Springs State Park, Raging Waves Water Park and Farnsworth House. 100% non-smoking, energy-efficient and eco-friendly. (Luxurious on-site spa coming soon.)
Hotel amenities include fully equipped kitchens, large work spaces with 2 phone lines, personalized voicemail, on-site business services, and more.
CITY:West Dundee
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Lombard
125-room new, moderately priced all suite hotel by Marriott designed for travelers who will be away from home for a week or months at a time.
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Naperville
The perfect relocation hotel for extended-stay travelers. Providing studio & one- or two- bedroom suites with refrigerator, stove top, microwave. Free deluxe continental breakfast, high-speed wireless access, indoor pool/whirlpool. 100% smoke-free hotel!
Victorian Rose Garden Bed & Breakfast
Welcome to Victorian Rose Garden B&B for Romantic Getaways, recreation or the Business Traveler. Only 45 miles from downtown Chicago, our quiet location in Algonquins 1835 historic district lends itself to many nearby leisure activities. Take a stroll in Towne Park or on the Fox River/Prairie Bicycle Trail, walk to several excellent restaurants, or just relax on the porch swing.
Victorian Rose Garden Bed and Breakfast
Home is listed by the McHenry County Historical Society. Located in downtown Algonquin, it has a quiet, romantic flavor. We specialize in personal attention for our guests.
On O'Hare perimeter hotel, located just 12 miles from O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and 27 miles from downtown Chicago. Newly renovated in 2007, our four-star, four-diamond hotel is situated in the Chancellory Business Park and three miles from the Schaumburg/Woodfield business district, convenient to such companies as Arthur J. Gallagher, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, and NEC Display Solutions. We offer special amenities designed to exceed all of your expectations - from the Heavenly Bed® with an oasis of plush comfort to the Heavenly Shower® with dual showerheads and more elbow room. Renew your commitment to fitness at the WestinWORKOUT® Gym. The Westin Kids Club® features fun activities, essential amenities, and helpful services for children under 13. Enjoy delicious dining at Don Shula's Steakhouse, considered one of the top steakhouses in the U.S. Renew, refresh, and revive at The Westin Chicago Northwest.
Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center will boast 500 luxurious state of the art guest rooms featuring the Westin Heavenly Bed & Bath. Visit Westin Workout powered by Reebok to jumpstart your day or unwind at Harry Caray's Holy Mackerel! American Fish House.
220 rooms including 56 private concierge-floor rooms. Convenient to McCormick Place and Oak Brook. Complimentary Midway Airport shuttle available. Meetings to 600 people, banquets to 360.
Wingate By Wyndham Arlington Heights
Complimentary continental hot breakfast, free airport and local shuttle (Monday through Friday), whirlpool, exercise room, guest laundry, Jacuzzi suites, and meeting rooms available. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access throughout the hotel. 5 miles from Schaumburg Convention Center. Easy access to I-90. Minutes away from O'Hare Airport. Only 3 miles from Woodfield Mall. Complimentary Manager's Reception Monday through Thursday.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Wingate by Wyndham Schaumburg/Convention Center
Guests will enjoy spacious, newly updated guest rooms with 32" plasma TVs, alarm clocks with iPod docking, free high-speed Internet access and complimentary expanded hot breakfast buffet. Guests will have use of our Jacuzzi and workout room and have access to our 24-hour business center. Meeting rooms are available. Enjoy drinks and snacks at our complimentary Manager's Reception Monday through Thursday evening.
Offering 108 rooms and suites, coffeemaker, iron & board, 2-line cordless phone with dataport conference call and voicemail. Enjoy the fitness center, whirlpool and breakfast bar.
CITY:Prospect Heights
Wyndham Garden Hotel - Buffalo Grove
Two story, garden style property perfect for business or leisure traveler.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
Wyndham Garden O'Hare/Elk Grove Village
The Brand New Wyndham Garden O'Hare/ Elk Grove Village is a contemporary urban retreat convenient to both O'Hare and Midway Airports, downtown and Woodfield Mall. We are conveniently located in the center of Elk Grove Village Business Complex. Get energized in our state of the art deluxe fitness center. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, or cocktails in our trendy restaurant and lounge. Our wonderfully inviting rooms and suites feature 32" HDTVs, Wyndham Be Well® Bed, wired and wireless Internet, MP3 capability, granite bathrooms, cordless speaker phones, desk with ergonomic chair, microwave, refrigerator, safe, iron and ironing board, and so much more. It's more than hospitality - it's an escape from the ordinary!
CITY:Elk Grove Village


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PHILADELPHIA -- If Tony Campana is hitting baseballs into the air, like he did in his first at-bat Sunday, when he flew out to left field, nothing good will come of it.
Line drives and ground balls are his saving grace and the Chicago Cubs centerfielder showed it when he singled to left field in his second at-bat Sunday against Philadelphia Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick.
With Campana on first base let the fun begin.
The Cubs' speedster had Kendrick all worked up to the point where the right-hander fired an errant pickoff throw to first base allowing Campana to advance to second base. He then moved to third on a Darwin Barney ground out.
He finished his trip around the bases after tagging up and scoring on Starlin Castro's fly ball to shallow right field. Campana slid just under the glove of Phillies catcher Brian Schneider.
"As long as he hits, he can be an everyday player in the big leagues," manager Dale Sveum said before Sunday's game. "As long as he can get on base, he can be an impact-type guy with that kind of speed. He just has to be able to hit and get his bunts down and do the things he's doing right now on an everyday basis."
Two weeks ago, when Campana was back at Triple-A Iowa, the Cubs weren't able to manufacture a run like that. Now his speed is a key component to a sluggish offense perhaps gaining some traction as the season nears its second month.
"He's going to get an opportunity here for a little while," Sveum said. "He will be playing out there 80 percent of the time."

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"The World's Largest Art Project For Charity" continues its successful journey in Namibia with an aim of Raising 10 million USD for charity by Dec. 2016.
"Peace Love & Photography is a very important project and I hope they succeed"
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ABCharity is the Alphabet made with thousands of children from around the World gathering together to form each letter shot from above. They will travel the World doing one letter per Country and will sell the letters as photo art in a limited edition. Companies and individuals will be able to buy their name when the whole production is done, for ex- ample; PETER would by P.E.T.E.R and %100 of the money will go to straight to different charities. The first letter "A" took place in Cape Town on Blauberg Beach with 500 children from local charities.
Ashley and Filip have just arrived in Namibia and have chosen the Dunes around Swakopmund as the next significant location in the World to produce the letter "B". With the cooperation of the Namibian Tourist Board this dream is quickly becoming a reality.
The aim of the day is to inspire children, leaving them with the feeling that they have participated in a Global project creating change for the future. The day on the Dunes will include live music, giveaways and activities that they can remember for life. They are a 100% efficient NGO and 100% of the money from the art sold will go straight from the buyer's bank account to the charity of their choice. Including charities within each Country they visit.
The whole production is a part of a web series called PeaceLoveAndPhotography.Tv which is quickly picking up speed and gaining International attention. With over 300,000 views on their latest video and 30,000+ followers on facebook this couple proves to be one to watch as their journey continues around the World.
They are currently seeking companies and individuals who can help support the making of "The World's Largest Art Project For Charity" and make it a project that kids around the World will remember for life. Their motto is "Together We Can Make A Difference" making this a Global project which we all can be proud of.
Follow their journey and support them along the road at www.peaceloveandphotography.tv
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Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday's 6 p.m. newscast on WVII.
They didn't go into details on the air. But they told the Bangor Daily News later that they were both frustrated with management.
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The book "Hypogene Karst Regions and Caves of the World" is going to be published by Springer, in its series "Cave and Karst Systems of the World".
There will be a karst session at the AGU Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco, USA in December 12-16: Characterization, Modeling, and Remediation of Fissured, Carbonate, and Karst Groundwater Systems
A book "Höhlen und Karst in Österreich" (Caves and karst in Austria; Editors: Christoph Spötl, Lukas Plan & Ehrad Christian) will be printed until mid of July. Subscription is available.
Many inspiring ideas on caves can be found in images created by children, generated by the International Contest of Kid's Drawing "Caves in the Eyes of our Children".
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Nanothermometry is a branch of physics and engineering exploring the use of non-invasive precise thermometers working at the nanoscale. These devices have high spatial resolution (below one micrometer), where conventional methods are ineffective.
Sensitivity of a nanothermometer[edit]
The sensitivity is a parameter that characterizes a thermometer giving information about the relative change on the output of the thermometer per degree of temperature change. Numerically, it can be computed using the calibration curve (temperature dependence of the thermometric parameter, Q)
As Sr have small values, usually it is expressed as a percentage, like 1.0%· K−1, meaning that a degree change in temperature will be measured in the thermometric parameter as a change of 1.0%. This quantity is telling to determine the appropriate detector to be used in order to measure the temperature from the thermometric parameter change.[1]
Luminescent nanothermometers[edit]
The well-known limitations of contact thermometers to work at submicron scalelead to the development of non-contact thermometry techniques, such as, IR thermography, thermoreflectance, optical interferometry, Raman spectroscopy, and luminescence. Luminescence nanothermometry exploits the relationship between temperature and luminescence properties to achieve thermal sensing from the spatial and spectral analysis of the light generated from the object to be thermally imaged.[2]
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Songhammer posing with Michele Boyd, aka "The Madge."
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Songhammer is a band that makes epic music for epic people. Inspired by the fantasy and mallet-wielding glory of World of Warcraft, their shredding, melodic metal and love for the PC game franchise have united metalheads and nerds alike. This year, the band is gunning for a second round of awards at BlizzCon (held at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 8-9) for its latest song/music video, "Death is on the Way."
The IE-based duo of ShredHammer (Ben Stewart) and CroonHammer (Dustin Miller) just unleashed their new video on the masses yesterday and if you're a WoW fan, or just someone who'd like to witness a quality tale of bloodshed, heroism and jazzy choreography before your lunch break, this video is for you. Well, at least it pulled us in--literally. You may remember this reporter somehow
See also: The Time Songhammer Kicked My Ass on the Set of Their World of Warcraft Music Video
What started as a grain of an idea funded solely through donations from a Kickstarter campaign last year turned out to be was a massive, two-day production with 100 cast and crew members on a sprawling horse ranch in Redlands. Over course of 50 days since last September, the band managed to crowdsource over $5,000 to film their project. Now, they're submitting it for BlizzCon's original movie award for a number of categories, including Best Costume, Best Song and even Best Dance Routine. Here's hoping they pull a sweep! Check out the video below and see if it's worthy.
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Open Borders for Tech Talent – Issue #2
Open the borders of Ireland to the world's best & brightest english-speaking tech talent
Summary: By allowing up to 75,000 work visas per year to highly-educated english-speaking technology workers into the Irish workforce, we can generating up to hundreds of thousands of jobs per year in the Irish economy, because every manufacturing job in an economy generates 5-6 jobs in the local community.
Ireland has staked an important claim on one of the most critical areas of industry in the world. Software & information technology. And, in terms of Europe, up to now it has won, hands down by winning the European headquarters of the leading IT businesses of the world, from Microsoft and Facebook to Google and Intel and Apple and EMC. It has created a critical mass like no other in Europe.
These are growth businesses that will continue to grow and gain importance in the next
20 years, just as they have grown in the last 20 years. So it is hard to understate how strategic and how powerfully Ireland has performed in attracting this talent and these companies to Ireland in the first place.
Furthermore, with this critical mass of the tens of thousands of successful ICT workers in their Irish home, the potential has been created for a great number of businesses to be spun-off, and entrepreneurs to create new businesses with the expertise that the Irish Software industry has developed in Ireland.
The risk, of course, is that we've been so successful in creating software businesses that we don't realize that we've run out of oxygen in the room. Unlike other manufacturing industries, where line workers don't necessarily have a very specialized skill set that is hard to replicate, the software industry does require specialized talent in large numbers. The factory workers of the information economy require not just willing and able hands, but willing and able, trained brains.
Speak to any CEO of an Irish technology firm and they will tell you of the lack of supply of skilled technology workers. Recruiting firms in Ireland estimate that there are approximately 20,000 unfilled positions in ICT as of this writing (April 2012). The export sector for Ireland is booming, with a record high trade surplus of €44.7 billion in 2011, up 4% over 2010. Preliminary trade data from 2012 shows this export growth expanding further.
Unfortunately people in other parts of the world think that the Irish economy is shrinking, not growing, and so people are not coming to Ireland from the rest of the EU due to fears about the economy crashing.
To these people, we have to highlight the opportunities that exist in Ireland, we have to show them that while there are challenges in the Irish economy, the unprecedented accomplishments we have in technology overweigh those disadvantages.
Up to a point, the Irish can produce these software engineers, product managers, biotech workers, etc. And we can accelerate and increase the production of talented software engineers by beginning development of math & sciences at earlier ages, and beginning programming courses at age 12 or so in our schools or through programs like CoderDojo. But just as it is unrealistic to expect that everyone will be good at software (and other technical fields such as biochemistry, genetic engineering, electrical engineering, etc), we can't expect the small Irish population of only 4.3 million people to churn out enough world-class product engineers to be able to design world-class products for the world's 6.8 billion population.
It's instructive to look at Silicon Valley, in the United States. Despite having a population of 320 million people, the city of San Jose, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley, is composed of 40% immigrants to the United States. People come the world over to be part of Silicon Valley… from China, from India, from Africa and from Ireland.
If we want to truly leverage the great start we have made in technology, Ireland must do the same in opening our borders to tech talent.
Once a company is embedded in a local city, it is very hard for it to move. But the easiest way to force a company to move is to starve it of the oxygen it needs to survive. The oxygen is the workforce, and if the talent isn't there to create the software or hardware products, then the company will be forced to move.
Two things happen when talent is too tightly stretched. Bidding wars erupt over local talent until such a point that the labor market is so expensive that only the richest and most successful of companies can compete for talent. Other companies will still need to pay these "market" wages for talent, and that will, in turn, drive a lot of companies out of business. In this way, if there is not sufficient talent allowed into or created in Ireland, not only do we strangle the industry, but there is no capability for new start-up companies to start, grow and survive as they won't be able to sustain the economics of high wages without the support of a multinational's access to markets.
What does this mean, "world-class design engineers"?
Just as every doctor is not a brain surgeon, not every engineer or programmer is a design engineer. Ireland needs it's share of local general practitioners (doctors), but it also needs surgeons. And these people generally would tend to graduate at the top 1-3% of their class. Export-oriented software development companies need uncommon design engineering talent as well if their products are going to compete against the best products offered by competitor companies from throughout the world.
What about Ireland's own talent?
With a population of only 4.5 million people in the Republic of Ireland, 1-3% of our graduating class is only 2,000-3,000 graduates per year. And a surprisingly large portion of those do not choose to study engineering or technical degrees that would help manufacturing companies that are the mainstay of the Irish economy… many instead choose service industries like accounting or law or medicine. These service industries, though necessary to support an economy, generally don't have a large multiplier effect on making the economy grow faster.
Plenty of other technical graduates are needed, for a wide variety of other exciting roles in supporting the development of markets, implementing software products, etc., but top design engineers are particularly vital.
So that's one of the reasons why companies like Google in Ireland import up to 80% of their talent from outside of Ireland. Yes, they create lots of jobs locally, but they still need talent from a larger pool of population.
What about growing more of our own talent?
This is definitely a necessary component, no matter what. And the same people behind Open Ireland are also behind the wildly successful CoderDojo program, which is currently generating the next generation of superstar tech talent in Ireland. Over 2,000 kids meet weekly in over two dozen locations in Ireland to learn programming and design. This is a powerful start to the revitalization of Ireland's development of programming talent. Surprisingly, there was no formal program of programming/software development at 2nd level in Ireland before CoderDojo. (Although Coderdojo isn't part of the Irish education system, the audience is largely 2nd level students).
While it will take another ten years for these kids to work their way through the system, growing more of our own talent will be a viable source of meaningful careers for a lot of our children.
What about retraining?
Some portion of the labor pool for our expanding technology sector can come from retraining. But just as it would be expensive or impractical to retrain a construction worker to become a medical doctor, it is expensive and impractical to retrain workers to become software design engineers. It takes years of effort and some innate preference and talent for someone to become a great technical talent.
That said, retraining is still a viable option for up to perhaps 10-15% of the demand. Not for software engineers, most likely, but for project managers, product managers, marketing and other supporting roles.
Since it is well-known that every Western country is looking for more of the relatively rare talent of world-class design engineers, why should Ireland succeed in this where others haven't?
- Ireland speaks English
- English is the international language of tech talent. The programming languages used to program all computers are all based on English, and the technical resources are more available in English than in any other language, so many college courses in technology, even in places like China, teach in English, and all technical talent learn some English on the way to becoming proficient in their technology.
- Few other EU countries have this advantage.
- From Google and Facebook and IBM and HP and EMC and Intel and Apple on down the line, no other small geographic area has the concentration of the world's leading technology brands.
- Politically, it has never been an imperial power or military threat to any other country; Emotionally, it is a warm and welcoming place; and geographically it has some of the world's most beautiful countryside, a very mild climate, and a good network of access via airways to the world.
Doesn't the Irish government already have a policy of allowing technical talent into Ireland through a visa program?
While well-intentioned, the existing programs for allowing technical talent into Ireland are unfortunately flawed and bureaucratic, especially for Ireland's own companies. Even though it is well-known that there is a massive shortage of tech talent world-wide, every new worker that is brought into Ireland needs to go through a several-months-long effort involving proving that there is no talent available in Ireland. This involves running advertisements in national newspapers, posting job openings to government websites that don't actually result in qualified candidates applying, and in some cases paying wages at above-market rates to foreign workers to allow them to qualify. Despite all these hurdles, even perfectly executed applications are routinely denied by the civil servants performing these functions, who believe they are doing the bidding of their Ministers in doing so. Smaller companies cannot navigate this labyrinth well, and no company can do it in an agile or inexpensive way.
The goal in an economy, to help it grow, is to make the necessary work of an economy a frictionless experience.
As the Irish government has proven previously, however, in establishing Ireland as one of the best countries in the world when it comes to setting up new companies (#13 worldwide out of 183 economies), when you eliminate friction, you can draw in new businesses and help the economy grow faster.
Unfortunately, the process of getting new technical talent, from abroad, in Ireland comes with a huge amount of friction. And that is not helping our businesses grow.
Why would this policy of allowing up to 75,000 tech talent into Ireland help us? Why wouldn't this talent be going to the United States instead?
If Ireland created a set of policies that allowed top tech talent into Ireland, we would be the only Western english-speaking country in the world to do so. This would be a massive advantage. The United States currently makes it even more difficult, and more expensive, to get a worker into the US than Ireland does.
In the United States, it has gotten so bad that a group of investors (Blueseed) are buying a cruise ship and docking it 12 miles off the coast of San Francisco to remain in international waters, with the goal of being able to have visitors helicopter in to the ships to visit the staff of IT workers and start-ups on the ship.
Even if the United States dramatically improved their policies on allowing tech talent to come into the US, however, there would still be a need for Europe to have a technical hub. And why can't Ireland be the Silicon Valley of Europe? Right now, it's only because of the lack of people.
In fact, US and EU companies actively seek out and set up operations specifically in areas where there is a plentiful supply of tech talent. So by drawing more tech talent to Ireland, we'll be creating more reason for more companies to make their presence in Ireland larger.
As Ireland has gotten stronger in technology, the talent pool has gotten tighter. This has created a tendency for Irish companies to begin outsourcing some of their work to other economies. However, as anyone who has done outsourcing of R&D knows, the costs of running a large and continuous outsourcing effort are much higher than it would first appear. It would be better to employ talented workers locally, where they would be paid and taxed locally, and where these dollars would contribute to the growth of the Irish economy.
One barrier which could be removed is the Irish policy on US driving licences currently not permitted to be carried over to an Irish licence. (Irish Licences are fine in the US but not the other way around)
Was talking last night with someone who just transfered from SF to a Dublin office. Having driven for the past 15 years back home; this was a big deal for him.
Americans highly depend on their cars back home, everyone gets their test as soon as their turn 16. Coming to work and live in a foreign country but having to resit their driving test and do the 12 hours of expensive demoralising and unneccessary driving instructions must be tough, and could be turning away a lot of good talent.
It appears the information in this article is not accurate.
Jobs.ie has only about 400 IT jobs advertised
There is an interesting discussion on politics.ie dismantling the position this article has postulated.
There are a couple of million people in the EU with IT degree's who are unemployed. Why would Ireland need to get those workers from outside the EU if the EU is full of unemployed IT workers?
This does not add up.
thanks for your post. I tried to respond to the politics.ie site, but the moderator hasn't approved my comment yet.
as you say, a very heated debate over at politics.ie!
here's my response to one of the posts there…
[QUOTE=Expose the lot of them;5245617]Only for one year, after that they can move to another employer, provided the new employer secures a work permit/green card for the employee. There is no problem getting a green card provided the salary is in excess of €60k.[/QUOTE]
Not true. SOSventures' Bill Liao, for example, was denied three times even though he had a salary above >>€60k and had previously co-founded major tech companies that became public companies.
Other people (other than you) state that salary levels over €30k result in work visas being issued. The experience of the tech companies I've dealt with and talked to on this issue is the same as my own. Visas are routinely denied despite being at the €30k+, €40k+, and higher levels like the >>€60k+ level as well.
It's true places like the United States also have "ridiculously strict" visa policies, and it's not just Ireland that has problems with the supply of high-tech talent.
re: job sites, most companies do not advertise jobs on all the different websites out there, and most companies do not advertise every position that they have open.
You state jobs.ie has only 400 jobs listed. I haven't used that site, so I trust your numbers… but IrishJobs.ie lists 4-5k tech jobs just in the IT sector (not including other tech sectors), and that's just one website. Computerjobs.ie only lists >1k jobs… some of which overlap and some which don't. monster.ie, all the newspaper sites, fas.ie, all these places have job listings, none of which is comprehensive.
Why don't computer companies advertise every position on every website every week? Because it costs money for each advert they place. If there are 4 openings for a Java programmer, only one may be listed in order to keep the costs down. Or more likely, zero may be listed if the company doesn't have a good experience advertising on that website, or if in fact there are so few qualified people who apply that it just isn't worth advertising on web sites at all… Many companies go direct to colleges, others advertise directly overseas, or on linked-in, Facebook, or other places that work.
re: 75,000 visas, this could go beyond just IT workers and include ALL the technical fields that our high-tech industry needs, from pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies to some of the specialist areas in medicine or finance.
re: 75,000 visas, this is more of an aspirational goal then today's need. If we had a society that could draw in 75,000 tech talent every year, than our economy would be doing incredibly well. There is no need to fear such a strong economy.
that said, a great debate is going on politics.ie, I'm glad to see it. As usual in politics, more heat than light, but I'm thankful for those that throw in some light and insight above. As for the "plenty of workers available in EU" argument, it's a nice argument, but it hasn't been the experience of most. For some companies that can pay far above standard, perhaps Google, yes… But this doesn't help an industry thrive, it can actually damage an industry to have wage rates which are so high that people can no longer afford the software. Workers in the IT industry can definitely expect to be paid far more than in other industries, perhaps, but they shouldn't, on average, be earning so much that companies are going out of business unless they relocate to low-wage areas like India or China.
As for the poster over there who is continuously arguing that eastern european programmers being superior, etc, there are plenty of bright minds from all over the world. I say, bring them on, come over to Ireland. There are jobs available.
Forfas (Ireland's policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science and technology) have consistently highlighted the lack of skilled ICT graduates/workers over the last decade. The projections of the skills gap have increased from 2,000 vacancies in the middle of the Celtic Tiger boom, to over 4,000 currently. [Check out their 'Expert Working Group on Skills Needs reports]. This is despite trojan efforts by the higher education sector and others to attract more students into ICT programmes over the last 10 years. In their ICT Action Plan (2011), the Irish Higher Education Authority has called for a doubling of ICT graduates in the next 5 years and as someone who works in this sector, the only way I can see us being able to deliver on this is by attracting international students. On our own, we simply cannot produce enough quality graduates to satisfy current demand.
I don't think this initiative precludes the EU, but there are three good reasons to go beyond the EU in my view. One is that 6 of the countries with the largest ICT sectors are outside of the EU. The second is many EU countries are struggling to find highly skilled ICT workers (look at the STEM initiatives in Germany for example). The third is that the ICT sector is inherently multinational/multi-cultural and the more exposure/experience Ireland has of working internationally and with international staff, the stronger the industry (and the country) will be.
Hope this helps
You have mentioned one case of a visa (I presume it was a green card application) being denied for a candidate who was being offered a salary in excess of €60K, on what grounds was it denied? Would the granting of the green card result in the company's workforce being in excess of 50% non-EU. Or was it the case that the person concerned would not in fact be an employee?
As for the position with salaries below €60k, work permit applications require a labour market test and where the employer claims that no suitable candidate can be sourced within the EU, the non-EU candidate must have certain verifiable education, skills and experience. Can you confirm that those conditions were met. Originally green cards were only available for roles with a salary in excess of €60k, however, this was later changed to allow green cards to be granted, in certain conditions for salaries below this threshold. In my experience green cards are issued provided the application meets the conditions and this includes those for salaries below €60k. Green cards come with an additional cost to the exchequer in that, unlike work permits, the holder of a green card can bring his/her family with him. This results in additional costs in provision of health, education, etc.
I have had a lot of experience applying for work permits and green cards and have found that the employers who claim that they are being unfairly denied work permits/green cards, in reality are attempting to secure working permission for candidates who are not qualified for the job, who are in Ireland illegally, or where the workforce would become more than 50% non EU.
I am also aware that the department does not enforce the requirement that the company concerned provide details of how it intends to replace the workpermit/green card holder with an Irish/EU employee.
(please use your real name when posting here, so we can make sure the dialogue is kept more civil, please?)
you are mentioning specific cases, and questioning why and on what grounds these visas are denied? I myself find this quite baffling as well, as most times these denials are based on apparently arbitrary things, trivial things, or things which in fact stand in direct contradiction to the laws of Ireland. And in particular when every person in the software development industry in Ireland is aware of the difficulty in finding talent.
To my eyes, it appears that the policy is to seek every possible avenue to deny the requests of the Irish companies that are seeking work permits of qualified workers from outside the EU. This, however, is spoken from the frustration of a person who is aware of the man-weeks it takes several staff to find technical applicants who are appropriately qualified. So my view may not be viewed positively by those who are inside the department. People who are inside the department may feel that they are being appropriate and in-line with the views of the policy of the government.
re: my particular company, I'd estimate that 10% of our workforce in Ireland is from outside the EU (although we do have about 10 nationalities, most of them are from inside the EU or have dual citizenship). So that's not an issue in terms of the rejection rate (not >50%), but thank you for that suggestion. re: the €60k green card issue, yes the person was an employee. So, thanks for your suggestions but I'm still baffled, after years of effort in applying for work visas, as to why they are nearly always repetitively denied.
I have found many other companies echo my concerns and complaints, and that's one reason why dozens of educational institutions, industry organizations and hundreds of individuals have spoken out and signed up in support of Open Ireland.
I am however, glad that you find no problem in getting work permits and green cards. If it's not too revealing, can you tell me if you are from a multinational or from an Irish company (SME) or a state organization/educational institution?
There is an interesting issue highlighted by the post of Nemesiscorporation on Politics.ie. S/He claims that the posts could be filled by EU workers. This is one of the "get out" clauses that could be used by the naysayers of this initiative and needs to be addressed
Let's suppose that there are enough job seekers in the EU for these positions, two questions
1. Have the positions been widely advertised in the EU?
2. Why are EU citizens not applying?
Could it be that the perception of Ireland's lifestyle does not appeal to other EU citizens, who may feel that coming to Ireland is a step down in life (Ireland has been portrayed as a basket case across the EU for the last 3.5 years) whereas, people from other parts of the world may see Ireland as a step up in life, with access to the EU as an added bonus.
I think the trickledown effect of filling high level vacant posts has such an upside that we should do all in our power to fill these posts and like all problems facing any business, the issues preventing implementation should be defined, solutions identified and promoted in a positive and assertive manner.
We most specifically should not allow "The EU won't let us" be a reason for not making this happen.
manufacturing companies that are the mainstay of the Irish economy. That is a big laugh. Which ones??? the american ones who create a few jobs and hold all their profits in the IFSC and invest zero in the economy. Apart from them we haven't got much of an economy because our resources (oil and gas) have been stolen, our fishing has been stolen by the eu and our farmers get paid not to work the land. The reason "we" (they) need FDI is to line their pockets. Trickle down my ass
-"every manufacturing job in an economy generates 5-6 jobs in the local community."
Most ludicrous unsubstantiated nonsense.
Give 1 single evidence backing this!
The major part of the Irish efforts to increase the population should of course be concentrated in the areas which supports the major part of the economy, and that is in the service sector.
I could see a great economic recovery if Ireland recruits students. Cutting down the tuition fees, and open up the universities to both EU and non-EU students would 1) save loads of SME´s from the bankruptcy wave that affects the housing market, especially the small landlords owning apartments on the letting market, that now is really the Irish housing and financial crisis going on.
2) create thousands of jobs in retail, banking, education, publishing, recreation, entertainment, travel, utility, furnishing, food/drink, hospitality, health care, mobile phone, child care, infra structure, etc etc etc, the list can go on for ever, and THESE are the sectors that drives or breakes the Irish economy.
Dropped tuition fees and a well structured housing coordination for foreign uni students would be one thing, there is of course many other things out there.
Investment in specialist health care research and treatment could of course put Ireland on the world map for treatment, or any other investment in specialised sectors within the service framework.
To have a population that in TOTAL is smaller than the just the urban part of China´s graduates that take their doctorate degree in technincal engineering ANNUALLY and still live in a merkantilistic and protectionistic economical illusion that might have had a validity back in the medieval city states of Europe back in the 16th century, that is appalling.
Get real, substantiate your opinions with facts, and address the problem in accordance with the economy.
Anthony Binder
Thanks for your opinion.
re: one single evidence backing this (generates 5-6 jobs in local community), there are legion. This is well known. I'd intended to document this better myself, I have a few dozen URLs, but I have asked a couple of economists to do it for me, and they haven't put together their papers yet. It's a natural question and you are right to ask it. The reason I haven't documented it better is because of lack of time and because it is a well-known statistic.
There are other opinions on this, of course, some estimate it is as low as 3 jobs generated for every manufacturing job brought to a community. But all are very additive to our economy.
Your other suggestions are interesting.
Anyone find some URLs to help Anthony, please?
@ Sean O'Sullivan
Anthony is correct, your talking about manufacturing jobs, he is talking about IT.
Your creating a strawman argument, the reason you or the economists can't do it is your comparing apples with oranges.
To state an IT position filled from abroad creates even 3 jobs is ridiculous.
Your arguments are valid talking about manufacturing, but manufacturing isn't IT.
You obviously don't work in IT or you would know this.
Why isn't there a concerted emphasis by Government / IT companies in providing focused, business-driven IT "crash" courses centred on the specific software development technical skills required by companies? Too much emphasis is placed on lamenting the skills shortage in Ireland. Companies and government agencies both urgently need to put their money where their mouth is.
Many 3rd level courses often take too long to complete and unfortunately many are, arguably, not dynamic or focused enough to accomodate the real skills shortages. Also, companies should be willing to invest in training/upskilling rather than just "lazily" expecting the exact skillset to be there waiting for them. Companies need to show more flexibility.
Many computing graduates who have strong work ethic and are willing to upskill are turned down by recruitment agents and companies because they don't have the required skillset, e.g., those who graduated 10-20 years ago. Such personnel seem to be blatantly overlooked by the media even though they have obtained solid degrees and work experience. I am personally aware of 2 leading recruitment agencies who have blatantly ignored (not even replied to their CV and cover letter) a computing graduate from the mid-90s because they don't, on paper, provide an exact match to job specs.
Who is genuinely looking after these people? As a start, wouldn't it make more sense to target those who have some experience in software development rather than just "giving up" on the them completely? More emphasis should be placed on the individual applying for a particular job rather than obsessing over the skills they do and don't have.
Where the hell is SOLAS (reincarnation of FAS)? There is a serious opening for an intelligent, business needs-driven agency to harness the talent that already exists in this country by delivering specific training / upskilling initiatives to address the skills shortage. What, if anything, is being done about this?
Ireland is suffering this shortage as a result of more than a decade of outsourcing – you reap what you sow. The numbers graduating with BSc in computer science, electronics & mathematics is low for a reason – there are/were better paying jobs selling / tiling houses or working for the public sector for a long time. It is changing but will not be a lightswitch change. If you flood the market with 75,000 immigrants then you will depress the pay rates and discourage school leavers from science courses. This is a negative feedback loop and will not benefit Ireland in any way, but will benefit shareholders and venture capitalists in the short term.
I've decided to give away all of the 200 or so "patentable" ideas I've come up with in the last year in a bid to spur us on in Ireland to start inventing new things. (I classify Irish here as anyone currently looking out the window at the rain)
My dream would be that the Irish suddenly became known as a country of mad craic inventors who were sponsored by a unique government inititive to start coming up with new gadgets, gimmicks and life saving things, that we could sell to the rest of the world.
I think that there should be a way for anyone who has an idea to go to a government agency and have it discussed, vetted, prototyped, marketed and sold even if that person can only barely afford the bus fare to go to the initial interview about the product or service they've thought of. I've actually only thought of this new quango right now, and I suppose thats what the enterprise board is for. But its always about the money first here. €200 to register, €2000 to file €500 for advice, €3000 for a protorype, all that kind of thing.
Hi Sean,
Thank you for posting my earlier comment, which is not supportive of your cause.
I am intrigued by yours and others lack of success in applying for green cards and the arbitrary refusals. The process was liberalised in 2011 and I went to the trouble of reading the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovations guidelines on applying. The criteria are (as I'm sure you are aware) broadly that your workforce must be less than 50% non EEA after hiring these people, that the job offer must be for a period of two years or more and that the salary is greater than 30k p.a. 30K p.a. is less than the average industrial wage! Not ICT average, general average.
If you are routinely being denied green cards without adequate explanation (which you are asserting) then this is unfair and you could explore a legal action which I know is expensive but surely not as expensive as the media campaign you are mounting / supporting and if many other companies are in the same position then you could share the costs? Equally if minor clerical errors are causing serial rejection and frustration then representation by lobby groups such as IBEC would be able to have this process streamlined?
You stated in an earlier comment that "Workers in the IT industry can definitely expect to be paid far more than in other industries,"
but your company Avego recently had a job posting on fas.ie looking for 5 Java engineers with 5 years experience
and you were offering €31k p.a. for these positions – it is grossly unrealistic to expect any candidates with those qualifications
to work for this kind of salary. There are many salary surveys available online specific to the Irish market and they would indicate
that €40k p.a. would be the lower end of salary for this kind of talent. I am really puzzled by someone with your history of achievement and exposure to the ICT world posting that job offer. More so given the location was in Kinsale which would probably mean relocation for anyone you hired.
I want the IT industry to grow in Ireland, I work in it and there is not a huge choice of employers where I live, it is in my interest that it grows but I don't see how further relaxation of the green card system is in the countries interest, this is the short game. I think it is liberal enough but would like to see it working fairly and openly. The campaign to introduce 75,000 migrants seems to be an obtuse reaction to a perhaps broken or inefficent clerical process?
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That does make sense. Never thought of that.
Hmm don't remember them last year maybe they only had them in the morning. I arrived Thursday around 4pm.
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