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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

Illinois hasn’t delivered jobs, job-training promised under clean energy law

Lisa Benjamin, the owner of Millennium Enterprises II, wants to expand her general contracting business in Matteson to do more energy-efficient, environmentally friendly construction and remodeling. She’s been waiting for the job-training for green energy businesses that was promised when Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act in September 2021. (Pat Nabong / Sun-Times)

Lisa Benjamin has been running her own general contracting business in Matteson since 2007 and is eager to expand and do more energy-efficient, environmentally friendly construction and remodeling.

“Anything and everything that’s green and clean,” says Benjamin, who is even planning green hardhats for her eight employees.

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