Coyote Logistics to add 400 jobs in Chicago, help City Colleges [Chicago Sun-Times]
Thursday, January 12th, 2012, 10:23 AM CST
By Fran Spielman | City Hall Reporter
[Chicago Sun-Times] January 10, 2012 — Coyote Logistics — a fast-growing technology start-up company that moves freight across North America — is adding 400 new jobs and playing a key role in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s makeover of the Chicago City Colleges.
The 400 jobs in sales, operations and technology will bring to 1,000 the workforce headquartered at the Green Exchange, 2565 W. Diversey, an Avondale building rehabilitated with help from a $10 million tax-increment-financing (TIF) subsidy.
Formerly headquartered in Lake Forest, Coyote moved to Chicago last summer and has been growing its young workforce ever since.
Coyote adds to the list of 12,000 private sector jobs created since Emanuel took office, but that’s not the only political benefit for the mayor.