Metro Chicago counties to forge regional push for foreign investment

Metro Chicago’s seven counties, an intensely competitive bunch, will agree Friday to lower their sharp elbows and collaborate on trying to pump up lackluster levels of foreign investment in the region.

Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties, and the city of Chicago, will work with the Brookings Institution think tank for the next 10 months to develop a plan for raising the profile of the often-overlooked region. The effort dovetails with a nearly 2-year-old regional push to build exports…Please click here to read Kathy Bergen’s story in the Tribune.