Our goal is to compile information about specific program/service areas and present helpful information by cutting across agency and governmental lines. We hope that this will provide quick and easy access to the information you need.

This project is sponsored by the Chicago Federal Executive Board with the cooperation and assistance of the City of Chicago and State of Illinois. The Chicago Federal Executive Board is composed of the heads of the various Federal agencies and departments located in the Chicago area.

The concept of Federal Executive Boards was introduced by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. Today, twenty-eight Federal Executive Boards exist to provide closer coordination among Federal agencies outside Washington, D.C. As regional hubs for all government activity, their work relates to five mission themes:

• COMMUNICATE: Inform member agencies of each other's initiatives and successes, and inform the local community of national policies and priorities.
• REDUCE COSTS AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY: Bring together agencies with common goals so that their efforts are complementary.
• FACILITATE SERVICE DELIVERY: Draw together agencies with common clients so that government services are convenient for the customers.
• PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS: Partner with community groups to solve problems.
• COORDINATE EMERGENCY SERVICES: Stand ready to marshal resources of the entire federal community, whether to aid a member agency in a crisis, or to assist the citizenry in a public emergency.

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