founders in illinois
illinois founders work around trading and finance in chicago, the rail lines and air cargo that cross the city, national physics and energy labs, and corn and soybean farms downstate. reagent logistics and reagent capital fit the freight and markets in chicago, and reagent research the national labs.
talk to reagentillinois at a glance
- new business applications
- 199,769
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 12.9% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 57,771
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $1.24 trillion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 5.5% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 12.7 million
- residents in 2025, about $97,568 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 571,100
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent creative the community and the craft.
also serving
all areas servedsources
- business applications, U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics
- high-propensity business applications, U.S. Census Bureau
- gross domestic product, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- resident population, U.S. Census Bureau
- manufacturing employees, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures retrieved 2026-11-07.