We started to make investments in the Illinois economy to help the Illinois economy evolve. We're starting to see the fruits of those investments now.

Collect 'em now and get an autograph. They'll be worth thousands once they win a Nobel!

Its a 45 million dollars market in homeland security federal government has 29 billion dollars in product and services that they are spending on products and services but we need to make sure that Illinois companies are taking advantage of this - and they way they need to take advantage is they need to have knowledge of what is happening in this area.

We want to continue to help train them and make then competitive in this global economy. And there is no better way to spend this money than on job training.

Express Scripts indicated interest, and we responded. It's something that could be a benefit to the state of Illinois.

We have a unique form of biotech in Illinois and a lot revolves around agriculture, food processing and alternative forms of energy.

These are high paying jobs.

The taxpayers can have confidence that they're getting a good return on their investment. We think we've had a lot of success.

Our whole economy, up and down the state, is based on food processing, distribution, getting food products - to the world.